Biology Degree from TESU - Is Lumerit helpful?

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If you plan on any and I mean ANY graduate or professional science degree DO NOT TAKE ANY IN TRACK SCIENCE COURSES ONLINE.

Sorry, but that's untrue. While the MD common application will ask, regular graduate schools don't and neither do DO schools. I have a collection of emails from a handful of DO colleges stating that it didn't matter if the sciences were distance or not. I stopped because it got boring hear the same thing over and over. Something like, "while it is not a preferred way to learn science, we do not have a specific requirement that prohibits...."
I don't want to turn this into a med school thread- but if you're going to split hairs, you'll hear arguments that you shouldn't EVER take your sciences at a community college (gasp) and ONLY at a 4-year college.



With a bio degree from TESU, she could enroll at Harvard Extension for their (nearly online) biology masters- that's on my "to do" list. It's pretty cheap too....just sayin.

In my opinion, which has nothing to do with med school applications, you can get a Biology degree from TESU - but it will be very expensive and will require very expensive options for upper-level biology courses BECAUSE you won't be able to use financial aid easily. Building a Biology degree at TESU will require external bio classes that you transfer back- and you probably will have to pay cash for those. I spent about $10,000 to complete the pre-med sequence and the pre-nursing sequences, and NONE OF THOSE credits are upper level, so be aware of that. I used Harvard Extension to take upper level (graduate level to be exact) biology that I would have transferred back to TESU for upper level credit. That system works perfectly, but it is expensive. Graduate level courses at Harvard are currently $2500 each ($625/credit) which is not too bad for grad school, but if you consider that they are filling an undergraduate (Bachelor's) degree, then they become very very expensive. But, it can be done.

The reason Lumerit can not help you with this degree, is because they are only selling advice. They do not offer biology courses themselves, as Sanantone told you - TESU's discount doesn't matter since TESU doesn't offer the courses you need.

Advice here is free, BUT if you enroll in a college, they have advisors that work for the college that will help you too. You will have to do careful planning, but you're not alone.