Advanced Enlistment with College Credits

[cookderosa]

I like ginger's comments about having access to free CLEP/DSST once enlisted- for sure that would be part of a good plan to not only accumulate credit, but wrap up the full degree, even if it's only an associate degree. CLEP and DSST can be used to meet almost all of those requirements (depending on the school of course).

If I were tackling this, I'd enroll at a community college- any community college actually. Choose one with a generous CLEP policy, and simply select that school as the recipient when taking the tests. Choose a college that doesn't charge for this (my CC actually charges $19/credit brought in from CLEP if you can imagine) and you can do this without enrolling in any actual classes - assuming they don't have any funny policy exceptions like completing X residency credits first... But this would absolutely be the fastest and most efficient. While we're talking about it, I don't know what kind of timeline we have, but it would be fun just to fill out a FAFSA and see if a Pell Grant award could happen. This is an automatic thing, so if you did get one, you could -if you wanted- take a few classes too. Killing multiple birds in one semester. I think a resourceful person could accumulate 30 credits over the summer session, especially if distance learning is an option.