<p>I need your advice!</p>
<p>Here’s the deal…</p>
<p>I slacked off in high school didn’t get good grades, traveled and worked at different ski resorts for few years now its time to get serious. I am now 22 and only have 25 credits (quarterly credits from a Community College) under my belt.</p>
<p>I get bored and disinterested easily with most CC classes and find most the work to be mindless and the class discussions are usually irrelevant and very basic-minded. The only classes I can actually become engaged in are those that are mostly lecture (if the instructor is knowledgeable and interesting). I find I absorb the material much better just reading from textbooks.</p>
<p>Perhaps I have a much different style of learning than most people… My best academic year in high school was when I did my entire senior year through Independent Study (which I finished in a couple months and aced everything). I have always tested exceptionally well, I just seem to become disheartened when bombarded with work and activities I find to be frivolous and not very stimulating.</p>
<p>So given my predicament here’s my goal and possible plan;</p>
<p>I wish to streamline everything, earn a BA in Poly Sci (maybe minor in History or Psych). Then I want to get into a Law School (either in California, Washington, Utah or elsewhere depending where I’m accepted) and eventually pass the bar in one of these three states. </p>
<p>Anyways, in order to streamline everything I am thinking of finishing my BA through mostly independent study and through a school which accepts CLEP/Credit by Exam. I have looked at doing this through a few different schools… I found Oregon State University offers BA in Poly Sci through distance online classes AND they accept CLEP/Credit by Exam (for most Gen Ed classes). The other choice I’m considering is Thomas Edison State College (which also accepts CLEP/Credit by Exam)… the only thing is it is in New Jersey (so if I decided to transfer to another West Coast school before finishing would I lose a lot of credits?) TESC is also ALL ONLINE which I am weary of even though it is a fully accredited state-run college and has some notable alumni (some politicians and such).</p>
<p>I have become very disheartened with CC, had a bad high school GPA and wish to get my BA done already or transfer to a stimulating school which fits my needs. Anyone have any advice, suggestions or knowledge of the programs at these two schools please let me know, I would appreciate it thank you.</p>
<p>The Oregon State plan sounds like a great idea for you.</p>
<p>I like your idea about independent study and CLEPping. I am part of a degree program called CollegePlus! ([CollegePlus</a>! - Home](<a href=“http://www.collegeplus.org%5DCollegePlus”>http://www.collegeplus.org)) which works with Thomas Edison State College to help students get their degree through CLEPs and independent study. I am currently a senior at Thomas Edison State College. I highly recommend it as a route that is the fastest, cheapest way to get a good, accredited degree for going on to law school. I know many, many people who have done it that way, and they have gone on to top law schools, etc.</p>
<p>I hope your decision making process goes well, and that you are able to choose the best option for your future. One reason I think the CollegePlus!/TESC option would be nice for you is that you said that you test well, and this option would allow you to take advantage of that ability. I have used strictly testing to get 93 credits so far, for a few thousand bucks, and much less time. Check it out!</p>
<p>@passed17CLEPs This CollegePlus! program doesn’t have any real affiliation with TESC, and if they actually provided something worthwhile they wouldn’t need to come into College Confidential message boards and try to post posing as students advocating for their “excellent program”. ;)</p>
<p>@MidwestMom thanks</p>
<p>Any other suggestions or ideas for other schools/programs, people? thanks for taking a second to help me out…</p>
<p>Right…I wasn’t saying there was an actual partnership between CollegePlus! and TESC, I was saying that TESC is the college that CollegePlus! uses to send it’s students to.</p>
<p>Now, I do want to clarify that I am indeed a CollegePlus! student. I have been in the program for almost a year, and I am currently a senior with 99 credits, and I am enrolled in TESC. I am currently also interning with CollegePlus!, but posting this is not at all part of my job, this is on my own time. As a CollegePlus! student though, I can vouch for the value of the service. If you don’t want to use it, that’s fine, but it has been a GREAT educational program for me.</p>
<p>As a top law school graduate, and a New Jerseyan, I cannot believe that lots of kids could use the Edison route to top law schools.</p>
<p>I think you need to prove yourself in a more normal college environment to get a good law school to take a chance on you. Best of luck.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - collegeplus’s Channel](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/collegeplus#p/u/10/k7BEJBZ_1KM]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/collegeplus#p/u/10/k7BEJBZ_1KM)</p>
<p>This is one example…check it out. I know of others, but this is the easiest to share.</p>