Help with finding a home for my college credits~

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Racher Bunny,

Seems like you are in a hurry to get yourself a degree. There's nothing wrong with that but having a degree to teach overseas, should be something that will be useful to you outside of the short time you will be able to stay overseas unless you are a citizen of another jurisdiction. You should ask a few questions, will my future employers want to see my transcript or just the actual physical degree.
If they want to see the transcript is your GPA going to come into the equation. GPA is calculated on the course you take at the college issuing the degree (mostly) since CLEP tests are pass/fail you get a P on your transcript. I'm enrolled at Excelsior and most of my courses there are 8 weeks long. I'm glad to be able to test out of classes that I may not need in the future. The CLEP test isn't as terrifying as other tests I've had to do in an exam hall with hundreds of other students as I was so anxious about my first one that once I began it the anxiety went away. I was thinking too much about the questions to be anxious. CLEP and DSST test help you fill in the classes in your General Education that you already know. If you attended an American High school you already know a lot about U.S History so with a bit of effort you can get 3 credits by preparing through Instantcert or other resources sometimes in as quick as two weeks preparation. It took me 4 weeks but I did it and I'm not an American, by birth or education. Its around $95 and if you fail you can resit the test or take the class later (six months to resit the test) your fail grade doesn't go on your transcript. The Excelsior tests last about 3 hours so there fairly difficult in my opinion but worth considering too. Before you enroll at a college make sure you detail the exact costs of your degree.

In many peoples opinion on this forum getting an Associates degree is a use of valuable resources that could be directed at your B.A if you can teach overseas with an associates that's one thing but if the goal is to get the BA to teach then you shouldn't use time and resources getting the Associates particularly if you have to pay for capstone classes in both Associates and on the BA. You can enroll at Excelsior College under a partnership program and this will cut enrollment cost if you want to take classes there as you need to have 12 credits in house before you graduate in order to cut the price for enrollment and graduation.