Advice needed with Admission and Foreign Transcripts. TESU.

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You can always apply to TESU and see if they ask you for your transcripts. Thinking about it, if you lead by sending in credits from Sophia (you'll need everything EXCEPT college readiness and the foundations courses) then there's a good chance that they won't care.

COSC is definitely not recommended for students who are starting at 0 credits. Especially international students. You need a total of 30 RA credits (credits from an actual college), though only 6 need actually come from COSC itself. They also require a science with a lab. The minimum cost for the 25 credits you'd actually need would be $1667 at TEL Learning. COSC also doesn't accept nearly as many credit sources as TESU. This means that it could be marginally less expensive initially at COSC but it'll almost certainly be more expensive in the long run for most degrees.

The easiest degrees to get at TESU are probably liberal studies and psychology. A business degree of some kind is also pretty easy. Computer science, English, and history trail behind. They're not impossible but they aren't easy either.

What I would do would be to sign up at Sophia. Complete at least 7 classes (21 credits) and apply at TESU. There are suggestions on the wiki regarding how to do Sophia classes: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sophia.org

The reason why you want to apply (and preferably fully enrolled) as soon as possible is because that locks in your academic calendar so that any changes that are made to the catalog itself on January 1st won't affect you.

If nobody else replies with a plan, I'll take a look later today to actually map out a history degree at TESU to see what gaps there might be. It may be that you just need to pay a bit extra for a non-Western history course instead of the cheaper DSST option. There are options. It's just a bit complicated.

A lot of helpful info, thank you so much again for your help, I really have no idea what I'm doing and have been struggling to get into some sort of secondary education for quite some time. I definitely recognise the importance of enrolling before January however I am about to embark on the busy season for my line of work so I will be unable to dedicate much time for studying and don't really want to pay for anything that I am not actively doing right now. Perhaps I would be able to finish the 7 classes from Sophia in the next month between my job while only having to pay the 79$ monthly fee and then be able to enrol with TESU before January but only fully start studying in the new year. Do you think this is feasible or is it most cost-effective to only start putting in the subscriptions and such when I have more time to dedicate to studying? I'm definitely interested in the Liberal Studies option if it easier and more streamline as my main goal is to have a BA so I can go teach English in South Korea in the next year or so. Thank you as always for your advice and assistance and I hope you're having a fine day!