Pierpont BOG AAS 2020

[Jimmyd]

@ctcarl, it's going to be a hard decision to decide which would be the best or most viable option for your family member.  There are a few things I would do to see which would be better.  What you might want to do is compare the requirements and see if your family member can work on the requirements that apply to all three offerings.

You need to compile a spreadsheet or a table and see what the requirements are, transfer options, test out options and costs, etc, find the one that suits you and the person looking to finish an Associates.  I would recommend going for the community college option first as you should have a significant discount on the tuition, furthermore, the cornerstone course is a simple "college readiness/success" course, so don't worry about it too much.

I would then flip the coin between the BOG AAS and COSC AA/AS, both of them again, have a cornerstone which is pretty much the college readiness/success courses you will see at most community colleges.  It's not too much of an issue to just complete that course.  Take your time to get RA credits slowly and transfer the max into the degree you select.

D'oh!  I wasn't aware that the Pierpont BOG had a cornerstone.  I was going by this page, but it certainly could have changed.  Unless you're talking about the Portfolio Development course?  I thought that you were just required to take a course with them, any course, in order to get a transcript if you wanted one.

I have to admit, I don't know much about COSC's cornerstone course, but I was told that it involves papers, assignments, quizzes, and classroom participation posts and responses on 2-3 topics per week, with MLA citations, which makes it sound like considerably more of a slog than a one-credit course at Pierpont.

I'll have to look at the costs and degree requirements for COSC again.  I thought COSC was significantly more expensive, and I wasn't seriously considering them because of the cornerstone requirement.  Plus we'd still need the same RA credits as Pierpont.

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Hi 

All of the below courses were accepted toward my BOG AAS Pierpont. I had a number of Sophia courses and they accepted them all including the English foundations course which came in as: ENGL 1104 Written English I CR 3.000 0.00

SCI 1999 Environmental Science CR 3.000 0.00
BIOY 1999 Human Biology CR 3.000 0.00
[size=undefined]MTH 1999 Foundations of Statistics CR [/size]2.000 0.00
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Thanks, Jimmy, this is very helpful!

Did you get a transcript?  If so, what course did you take from Pierpont to qualify?  Was there a cornerstone?

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@ctcarl, it's going to be a hard decision to decide which would be the best or most viable option for your family member.  There are a few things I would do to see which would be better.  What you might want to do is compare the requirements and see if your family member can work on the requirements that apply to all three offerings.

You need to compile a spreadsheet or a table and see what the requirements are, transfer options, test out options and costs, etc, find the one that suits you and the person looking to finish an Associates.  I would recommend going for the community college option first as you should have a significant discount on the tuition, furthermore, the cornerstone course is a simple "college readiness/success" course, so don't worry about it too much.

I would then flip the coin between the BOG AAS and COSC AA/AS, both of them again, have a cornerstone which is pretty much the college readiness/success courses you will see at most community colleges.  It's not too much of an issue to just complete that course.  Take your time to get RA credits slowly and transfer the max into the degree you select.

D'oh!  I wasn't aware that the Pierpont BOG had a cornerstone.  I was going by this page, but it certainly could have changed.  Unless you're talking about the Portfolio Development course?  I thought that you were just required to take a course with them, any course, in order to get a transcript if you wanted one.

I have to admit, I don't know much about COSC's cornerstone course, but I was told that it involves papers, assignments, quizzes, and classroom participation posts and responses on 2-3 topics per week, with MLA citations, which makes it sound like considerably more of a slog than a one-credit course at Pierpont.

I'll have to look at the costs and degree requirements for COSC again.  I thought COSC was significantly more expensive, and I wasn't seriously considering them because of the cornerstone requirement.  Plus we'd still need the same RA credits as Pierpont.

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Hi 

All of the below courses were accepted toward my BOG AAS Pierpont. I had a number of Sophia courses and they accepted them all including the English foundations course which came in as: ENGL 1104 Written English I CR 3.000 0.00

SCI 1999 Environmental Science CR 3.000 0.00
BIOY 1999 Human Biology CR 3.000 0.00
[size=undefined]MTH 1999 Foundations of Statistics CR [/size]2.000 0.00
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Thanks, Jimmy, this is very helpful!

Did you get a transcript?  If so, what course did you take from Pierpont to qualify?  Was there a cornerstone?

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@ctcarl, it's going to be a hard decision to decide which would be the best or most viable option for your family member.  There are a few things I would do to see which would be better.  What you might want to do is compare the requirements and see if your family member can work on the requirements that apply to all three offerings.

You need to compile a spreadsheet or a table and see what the requirements are, transfer options, test out options and costs, etc, find the one that suits you and the person looking to finish an Associates.  I would recommend going for the community college option first as you should have a significant discount on the tuition, furthermore, the cornerstone course is a simple "college readiness/success" course, so don't worry about it too much.

I would then flip the coin between the BOG AAS and COSC AA/AS, both of them again, have a cornerstone which is pretty much the college readiness/success courses you will see at most community colleges.  It's not too much of an issue to just complete that course.  Take your time to get RA credits slowly and transfer the max into the degree you select.

D'oh!  I wasn't aware that the Pierpont BOG had a cornerstone.  I was going by this page, but it certainly could have changed.  Unless you're talking about the Portfolio Development course?  I thought that you were just required to take a course with them, any course, in order to get a transcript if you wanted one.

I have to admit, I don't know much about COSC's cornerstone course, but I was told that it involves papers, assignments, quizzes, and classroom participation posts and responses on 2-3 topics per week, with MLA citations, which makes it sound like considerably more of a slog than a one-credit course at Pierpont.

I'll have to look at the costs and degree requirements for COSC again.  I thought COSC was significantly more expensive, and I wasn't seriously considering them because of the cornerstone requirement.  Plus we'd still need the same RA credits as Pierpont.

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Hi 

All of the below courses were accepted toward my BOG AAS Pierpont. I had a number of Sophia courses and they accepted them all including the English foundations course which came in as: ENGL 1104 Written English I CR 3.000 0.00

SCI 1999 Environmental Science CR 3.000 0.00
BIOY 1999 Human Biology CR 3.000 0.00
[size=undefined]MTH 1999 Foundations of Statistics CR [/size]2.000 0.00
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Thanks, Jimmy, this is very helpful!

Did you get a transcript?  If so, what course did you take from Pierpont to qualify?  Was there a cornerstone?

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@ctcarl, it's going to be a hard decision to decide which would be the best or most viable option for your family member.  There are a few things I would do to see which would be better.  What you might want to do is compare the requirements and see if your family member can work on the requirements that apply to all three offerings.

You need to compile a spreadsheet or a table and see what the requirements are, transfer options, test out options and costs, etc, find the one that suits you and the person looking to finish an Associates.  I would recommend going for the community college option first as you should have a significant discount on the tuition, furthermore, the cornerstone course is a simple "college readiness/success" course, so don't worry about it too much.

I would then flip the coin between the BOG AAS and COSC AA/AS, both of them again, have a cornerstone which is pretty much the college readiness/success courses you will see at most community colleges.  It's not too much of an issue to just complete that course.  Take your time to get RA credits slowly and transfer the max into the degree you select.

D'oh!  I wasn't aware that the Pierpont BOG had a cornerstone.  I was going by this page, but it certainly could have changed.  Unless you're talking about the Portfolio Development course?  I thought that you were just required to take a course with them, any course, in order to get a transcript if you wanted one.

I have to admit, I don't know much about COSC's cornerstone course, but I was told that it involves papers, assignments, quizzes, and classroom participation posts and responses on 2-3 topics per week, with MLA citations, which makes it sound like considerably more of a slog than a one-credit course at Pierpont.

I'll have to look at the costs and degree requirements for COSC again.  I thought COSC was significantly more expensive, and I wasn't seriously considering them because of the cornerstone requirement.  Plus we'd still need the same RA credits as Pierpont.

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Hi 

All of the below courses were accepted toward my BOG AAS Pierpont. I had a number of Sophia courses and they accepted them all including the English foundations course which came in as: ENGL 1104 Written English I CR 3.000 0.00

SCI 1999 Environmental Science CR 3.000 0.00
BIOY 1999 Human Biology CR 3.000 0.00
[size=undefined]MTH 1999 Foundations of Statistics CR [/size]2.000 0.00
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Thanks, Jimmy, this is very helpful!

Did you get a transcript?  If so, what course did you take from Pierpont to qualify?  Was there a cornerstone?

I did not get a transcript. I was using the one they provide online. I did not take a course with them. Their was no requirement to complete a cornerstone. Some on this site took Exploring Career Opportunities which was a one credit course in order to get a transcript.