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Former Commitmentphobe Seeks Roadmap to Degree
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Hi, all.

I'm established in my current career and have been lucky enough to have many opportunities for some kind of advancement. Sadly, my heart isn't in it as it once was (for a few good reasons) and I'm on the fence about pursuing a career in Medicine. As I'm easing into my mid-thirties, my time for education (for the purposes of practicality) is running out quickly. I have a few basic, lower-level courses under my belt, a couple useless, for-profit- college proprietary-filler course credits floating around and am trying to get this "test your way to a college degree" stuff going. Thanks to my own immaturity and lack of commitment in my late teens and into my mid-twenties, I'm now having to try and cobble together my patchwork of credits and get this done at a breakneck pace.

In the meantime, I've enrolled at and am beginning courses through University of the People, which unfortunately for me, is not self-paced, nor are the credits likely to be transferrable.

Here are the credits I've got so far from other places:


Regionally Accredited Junior College:

BIO1134 - General Biology I - 4 Credits - A Grade
ENG1113 - English Composition I - 3 Credits - A Grade
MAT1213 - College Math (Beginning Algebra) - 3 Credits - B Grade
SOC2113 - Introduction to Sociology - 3 Credits - A Grade
MUO1241 - Small Singing Groups - 1 Credit - A Grade

Ashford University:

EXP105 - Personal Dimensions of Education - 3 Credits - A Grade
PSY202 - Adult Development and Life Assessment (Psychology) - 3 Credits - B Grade

Another Regionally Accredited Junior College:

AJ 100 - Intro to Criminal Justice- 3 Credits - A Grade
AJ 104 - Criminal Law - 3 Credits - A Grade

Yet Another Regionally Accredited Junior College & Police Academy:

POLI102 - The American Political System (PoliSci) - 3 Credits - B Grade
ADJU 381-384 - Police Academy - 25.5 Credits - A Grade (probably useless Dodgy )

Using Modern States' system, I've completed all modules and practice questions for the Humanities CLEP in about a week's time. I'm waiting to receive my testing voucher. I would greatly appreciate some help in coming up with a road map toward some kind of science-ish bachelor's degree (Psychology or Biology, though I don't know if the latter is doable without labs) from one of the "Big 3" schools.

Sincerely / respectfully / desperately / ever-hopefully,

C
There are no shortcuts to becoming a physician.

MSK9 MD MS
Resident Physician
PhD Candidate - Biomedical Engineering ('27)
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Former Commitmentphobe Seeks Roadmap to Degree - by MSK9 - 11-13-2017, 10:29 PM

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