patten university undergraduate

[ladylearner]

I'm chiming in a bit late but I did do a "semester" at Patten from May-August 2014. I signed up for the program because I learn really fast, I had experience with the classes that I would have to take, et al. $1500 for as many classes as you can complete also did not hurt.Overall I hated it for a variety of reasons.

While you can "test out" of a course, you still have to do the final project for that particular course. That shouldn't have been difficult but I had a professor who was VERY slow to respond to emails and questions that I had about the project. The syllabus/ guide that they had posted was very vague and you are only allowed 2 submittals which will be averaged. It also took about a week for each paper to be graded and returned. In total, in about 4 months, I only managed to complete 1.5 classes (was waiting on a assignment grade for the second class). All in all, I really wish I had just used that money to CLEP or SL.

If you wanted to take algebra or some other class later, you could just ask your advisor to register you in a different class. You do get automatically enrolled in the next class but advisors can make changes if necessary. I think I will try aleks for algebra. I think it makes sense to take Straighterline in some cases because it's faster and cheaper and the exams are open-book. For certain subjects that comes in handy.