Oh my garsh overwhelmed with what to do for my kids for each of their degrees?- HELP

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I'm just nervous that I will have the test out of courses they really don't need, which will waste time and money.

This is really pretty simple. The degree forum wiki has many degree plans and shows which CLEP/DSST/SL/etc... will work for the required credit. Degree Forum Wiki

Since your kids have roughly 6 credits you can get them started by completing the lower level Gen Ed courses There are idiosyncrasies from degree plan to degree plan but you essentially need all 42 of these credits (though sometimes a given CLEP can satisfy more than one requirement Thomas Edison State College: Associate in Arts Note how those same lower level courses are required in the BA Computer Science Thomas Edison State College: Computer Science All the lower level stuff can easily be obtained through CLEP/DSST/SL? etc... basically the entire first 60 credits can be tested out of, the next 30 credits (when you go from 60-90) is usually elective and can be upper or lower level (note some degree plans account very specifically for this credit so what I just said doesn't always hold true). these credits over the gen ed up to the 90 credit mark are pretty easy to fill (usually) by testing and sl, etc... its the final 30 credits that become more difficult. Now if you pick liberal arts or social science, even business, the final 30 credits at the upper level are still obtainable through the non traditional pathways, but when you select certain majors like Computer Science or IS these upper level credits just don't have many options other than finding a class somewhere. You can still save a small fortune on these final classes by taking the courses elsewhere and transferring them back to TESC. CSU-Pueblo, LSU, University of Idaho, BYU, lots of schools offer affordable places to get specific credits. The reason the Big 3 are so big around here is that they offer broad flexibility in obtaining cheap credit and allowing it to be transferred back to their programs.

I brought up WGU because they will allow you to test out via CLEP and others for at least some of the lower level courses...much like the Big 3 general Ed. They are different in that they offer the upper level courses in a self paced finish quick as you can format. For a flat fee of around $2500 per 6 months your kid(s) could work through there degree as fast as they choose to (are capable of). For the specific IS degree path this might prove very cost effective...but it depends on your kid and their resolve/abilities.