Just popping in as a TESU alumni

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Hello
Looking at your bio and blog you’re taking your masters at NYU and have a great career going for yourself. Just curious as to how many alternative credits went toward your bachelors degrees and was it questioned at all by admissions or employers.
Thanks you’re an inspiration.

I went to community college, so a lot of my credits were transferred from there. I ended up with 56cr obtained from alternative credits. Many of the Data Science & Analytics degree requirements are from statistics.com which are marked as alternative sources on my transcript. 

I'm also aiming for the TESU Data Science & Analytics degree and just curious... did you find the statistics.com courses challenging? How much effort did you typically have to spend on one of those courses?

I’d say they were challenging since it was a lot of info to take in within 4 weeks. I don’t recommend taking more than 2-3 at a time if you’re working a full-time job   

Some classes were easier than others because I am familiar with Python for data analysis, so maybe 1-3 hours a week on the coursework and assignments for those. With other classes (aka non-Python courses) it could’ve taken up to 8 hours a week, especially with the one course on forecasting in R that I took.

The classes were pretty challenging and I definitely learned a lot. I loved the Python courses, found the social networks class really interesting... can’t say I was a huge fan of anything that uses Excel add-ons though. 

The courses are really practical, BUT you might miss out on some foundational knowledge. I already knew quite a few of the concepts for some of the courses through self-learning so depending on how much you currently know, you might need to supplement your learning with other materials.