UMPI YourPace ACE (Sophia) Transcript Results

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I'm kind of wondering why some people are pushing the competency-based thing so hard lately.  I honestly don't understand it.  I mean, I definitely understand the cost-factor; but especially for newbies, that's not a great thing to tell them right off the bat.  People need to understand the downside of it too, and all anyone says are the upsides.  If a new person to the forum hasn't proven to be able to finish even 1 course quickly, how in the world can you in good conscience encourage someone to sign up for CB??

I don't think anyone is advising anyone else with zero credits to immediately hop on a competency-based degree. But people do need to know their options. If it takes you a whole year to finish 30 credits at UMPI after completing Sophia, that's $8400 and still possibly cheaper than at least TESU.

That would be 6 terms so an entire year - literally. You'd have to go very sloooooowly to complete 10 classes in 6 terms. And remember, you don't have to take classes anywhere else. You can take everything Sophia offers and transfer it in. Right now that's $149 for an entire year.