Graduation Countdown, Looking for final push

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Sarg123, I originally planned on testing out of a lot more credits. I was lucky enough to get the same advice from tesu-acct-student that I like to also give now. My Girl Friend has a Masters Degree in accounting and also works for the State. I do enjoy working for the State and would like to remain here. However, I would like to advance my career and with my background working for Time Warner Cable my opportunities are very limited. That is when I decided to get an Associates Degree in Accounting. At my local CC I was going to be able to test out of Half of the degree which was my original goal and I would be finishing up that degree in mid May. However I found this forum and decided to tweak my goals and just go straight for a bachelors degree. I just got a bit off my point so back to it, when she was interviewing for jobs with the State in her field they required her to bring in her transcripts to the interview. She told me that they looked at her GPA at almost every interview she went to. Then when she was finally offered a position, before they could officially give it to her she had to supply ALL original transcripts from any college/institution attended(lucky for her she went to the same school for her undergrad and graduate degrees). They also made her bring in her diploma so they could photocopy it (strange in my opinion). Thankfully here in NYS ACE and NCCRS credit is widely accepted by Civil Service and NYS Education Department. Not so much with actual colleges (every purposed ACE credit was shot down by my CC).

Edit: I forgot to mention they cared ONLY about here ACCOUNTING COURSE GPA. She caught on to this because one interviewer told her so she started writing it on the envelope to make their lives easier lol.

Sad thing for me is, even when I am done with my Bachelors Degree I am going to be seeking out Auditing courses so I can get some graded credits under my belt in Auditing. If I ever want to sit for the CPA exam in NYS I will need at least 1 UL Auditing Course and about 14 additional credits in anything so I can hit the 150. Luckly my path will lead me to a degree at 123/123 but when I am finished I will have 133 credits done because of the ADDITIONAL Accounting courses I took.