Planning For The Future

[Prloko]

Thanks for the breakdown! I'll probably go with your suggested changes unless someone tells me otherwise.

There are a few things I was wondering about:
24 credits being from TESC, I'm guessing that is some kind of requirement on their side?
When should I register with the college itself? Should I get all my CLEP, ACE, and DSST stuff out of the way first and then enroll and take the TECEPs?
ALEKS seems to have multiple math courses so, I should just pick one that doesn't overlap?
Also wonky on the PLA course. Not sure what it is so, will have to look into it.

Thanks Again,
Chris

TESC has recently instituted a "per credit" tuition plan. The school has a yearly enrollment fee. If you check the website, the fee structure can be very pricey, especially if you are not a resident. TESC allows you now to forgo the enrollment fee if you agree to complete 24 credits with the school which includes their courses and TECEP exams. Since TECEP exams are around $105 each, this will save you a lot of money. The only course you are truly required to complete with TESC is the capstone. You are allowed to transfer in the remaining 117 credits if you wish, but again, there is an enrollment charge (which right now is over $3000 annually for non residents).

If you are doing the per credit plan and will complete 24 credits with TESC, you should go ahead and enroll NOW, so you can lock in your catalog and not get any surprise changes happen to you (like the FEMA thing). Even if you don't plan on doing the 24 credits, go ahead and enroll now, to lock in the catalog, get your evaluation and your plan approved. You can always change to the enrolled option later.

Do a search on this site for which courses in ALEKs don't overlap. For example, TESC will only take one of the statistics courses, the school considers the other ones to overlap. Also, make sure that the math course you already took at your CC does not overlap with one of the ALEKs courses. I believe the current ALEKs courses that are accepted for college credit is Inter. Algebra, Algebra, Trig, PreCalc, and the Statistics courses.

As far as the PLA course, I never took it, but some members on this site have and it is good for I believe 3 ACE credits.

I also forgot about TEEX courses, these are also free. Search Sanantone's threads because she has provided a ton of info on TEEX, Kaplan, and other great sources. She introduces a lot of the cool ideas on this site and her ideas are always thoroughly researched by her. Well worth your time.

On a side note, you said you attended Manchester CC ( I used to have friends in that area). You do know that Charter Oak is a State School for Connecticut right? You may want to revisit them since you may be able to save some money and also have a school that is locally recognized as a Connecticut State College. This could be helpful if you ever want to transfer in the future to one of the other local schools like UCONN or pursue a Grad degree.