My Experience - Excelsior vs. TESU

[Leherself]

I've seen that posted from others, but I've never been able to figure out how learning about CPUs, RAM and MS Word fulfills that requirement

DSST physical science ? yes
CLEP biology ? yes
ECE Weather and Climate ? yes
ECE Earth Science ? yes
DSST Intro to Computing ? really ?
http://getcollegecredit.com/assets/pdf/d...puting.pdf

Honestly, I thought it was strange too. They applied both of my computing courses there (one was from my freshman year in college when I was 17, and the other was an arbitrary check the box for my associates degree because they considered my first intro to computing class to be too high a level to count as a GER. Go figure), and my actual natural sciences classes both got pushed into general education electives.

Excelsior didn't consider either of my computer courses to be natural sciences, so the courses I used to fill the requirement there were Astronomy (DSST - before they redid it), and Physical Geography (a rather entertaining easy A class I took locally so I could maximize my GI Bill benefits. A significant portion of our class time was spent watching tornado hunting videos).

It was funny, because my science courses were one of my worries when I switched to TESU - I am just not a science-y person. I like it, it's interesting, but my brain just doesn't get it the way I do other things (the exact opposite of my SO, who was an undergraduate business major and is now a high school science teacher. We have a completely different way of thinking - I research and contemplate and analyze and argue, he's the methodical hands-on get-it-done experimenter type. We make a good team though). And it turns out I didn't even need the science classes I already had, lol. One of the reasons I dismissed COSC out of hand was because they have a lab science requirement.