04-14-2009, 09:01 AM
True and true. However I do not care that they are as rigid as a B&M, I want them to be different and flexible so I can get a degree quickly since I am highly overqualified from life and work experience. Even dealing with remedial CLEPs is a waste of time but I'm doing it to "play the game." Sadly, if my band in the 90's had sold just a few more albums, I'm sure my B&M school would have given me an honorary doctorate by now, for a reasonable endowment of course.
Yes, I'm cynical. I still find a great deal of hypocracy, self-righteousness and pretention in the "higher education" field. A school that rejects a D is not automatically better or more credible than one that accepts it, particularly from a non-traditional student with proven work experience. I may have gotten a D in 1983, but I manage people with masters and even PhD's today.
For the record, EC supposedly stopped accepting D's in 09 because it was a rule related to offering federal financial aid. TESC and CO are state schools and offer financial aid so as usual the truth is somewhere in the fog.
Yes, I'm cynical. I still find a great deal of hypocracy, self-righteousness and pretention in the "higher education" field. A school that rejects a D is not automatically better or more credible than one that accepts it, particularly from a non-traditional student with proven work experience. I may have gotten a D in 1983, but I manage people with masters and even PhD's today.
For the record, EC supposedly stopped accepting D's in 09 because it was a rule related to offering federal financial aid. TESC and CO are state schools and offer financial aid so as usual the truth is somewhere in the fog.
[SIZE="3"][SIZE="2"]Mongoose65
started Excelsior 11/08
BA Lib Studies from TESC completed 10/09:
Transferred in 42 from B&M school.
9 credits from ISM Purchasing certification.
CLEP Humanities 11/08 (64)
CLEP A&I Lit. 11/08 (70)
CLEP Soc. Sci. & History 12/08 (65)
CLEP Natl Science 1/09 (51) :p
Penn Foster Info Lit 2/09
Psych GRE 4/09 Score 540, 26th %, 0 credits :mad:
IAAP CAP certification exam (2 days, 750 questions)5/09 PASSED all 4 exams, 29 credits!
11 FEMAs
CLEP English Comp w/ easay (62)
ALEKS Intro to Statistics (8/09)
CLEP English Literature (69)[/SIZE][/SIZE]
started Excelsior 11/08
BA Lib Studies from TESC completed 10/09:
Transferred in 42 from B&M school.
9 credits from ISM Purchasing certification.
CLEP Humanities 11/08 (64)
CLEP A&I Lit. 11/08 (70)
CLEP Soc. Sci. & History 12/08 (65)
CLEP Natl Science 1/09 (51) :p
Penn Foster Info Lit 2/09
Psych GRE 4/09 Score 540, 26th %, 0 credits :mad:
IAAP CAP certification exam (2 days, 750 questions)5/09 PASSED all 4 exams, 29 credits!

11 FEMAs
CLEP English Comp w/ easay (62)
ALEKS Intro to Statistics (8/09)
CLEP English Literature (69)[/SIZE][/SIZE]