Efficient Associate degree plan from scratch

[bjcheung77]

For many age is nothing but a number, for some schools (not many) but in the case of Excelsior as an example, as long as the student has a high school graduate parchment, they can be admitted even if they're a minor - I think this can be home-school or anything, such as getting one of those inexpensive online high school diplomas that have Regional Accreditation.

There are a small number of other nationally accredited colleges that operate a high school division that is Regionally Accredited, I recall a few Excelsior College graduates who finished a Penn Foster high school diploma at 12 and graduated Excelsior at 13 using the test out method, just doing the required courses at Excelsior. Essentially all the work was done while working on that high school diploma!

In fact, there are some DEAC/RA schools that target high school/home school students and graduate them with an Associates degree while they graduate their High School diploma by providing dual enrolment and other options that allow them to complete the Associates while they're still in high school. There really isn't a need to rush, allow the child to make their own decisions, but do provide them any alternative pathway option there is...

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My nephew and niece asked me for a high school & associates degree plan last year, basically, I informed them there are options to complete that if they ever wanted to be ahead - they're only 13 to 15. Basically, since I used Penn Foster earlier as an example (unless they've made some changes), by using ACE and transferring 75% of the Associates/HS diploma and taking 5 required courses at the school in question, you can get both a High School diploma and an Associates at the same time using Penn Foster's Early College program.

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Oh, here's the program link: https://www.pennfoster.edu/high-school/a...ly-college I would however, recommend other programs, this is just an example.