TESU Psychology courses & grad school prospects.

[advancedmemetics]

Hello everyone,

First of all I'd just like to thank everyone who contributes to the enormous wealth of information available to non-traditional students on this board. It has been a huge help in planning my education.

When I began planning my Psychology degree earlier this year, I had been set on testing out of as much as I could and taking upper-level courses through secularcourses.com/study.com. My plans for after graduation were originally to teach English overseas, but recently I've been instead considering pursing graduate work. In doing research on admissions for clinical psych programs (at least funded ones), I've realized that graduating from TESU without graded major course work is going to be a considerable hindrance. So my thoughts now are to perhaps pay for the comprehensive tuition plan and spend a year taking the majority of my upper-level courses with TESU.

My question for those of you with relevant experience is, would it be reasonable to think that over the course of a year I could develop solid enough relationships with psych instructors to ask for letters of recommendation?

For those of you who may have taken some of the online psychology courses offered at TESU, what was the difficulty like? How were interactions with professors?

How competitive might I be to grad admission offices with a TESU degree? I realize I'll probably have to explore REU options as well as postbac research options to strengthen my chances. I will probably, at some point, make a second post in the grad sub-forum dealing specifically with admissions concerns.

I look forward to hearing any thoughts or opinions; all of the posts on here have been incredibly helpful thus far.

Thanks!