A quick question and a hypothetical for ya

Hello everyone,

Little preface for anyone who hasn't read my previous posts, going in the Army in Nov., if I have 48 credits I go in at a higher rank(E-3), I currently have 18 community college credits and just finished my tenth fema isp. I plan to bank all these at TESC and get it all evaluated some time down the road just need credits on paper.

My first question I know this has been covered to death but what are the easiest clep/dsst, that I can take cold no study or very little study like I said Iam going to concentrate on the education down the road just want that promotion right now. Any help much appreciated.


Now my hypothetical, can someone with an online degree can into a decent US medical school if they take all the required courses and I was thinking about taking the "hard" science courses at b&m school, and got a really good mcat score. Do they have a chance?

Thanks in advance, John

 

Easiest CLEP and DSST Exams

 

CLEP English w/essay
CLEP English w/o essay
CLEP General Math
CLEP History and Social Science
CLEP History I
DANTES Ethics
DANTES Here’s to you Health
DANTES Intro to Business
DANTES Intro to Computing
DANTES Intro to Criminal Justice
DANTES Intro to Law Enforcement
DANTES Tech Writing

As far as your question, I would think it would okay if the MCATs are good and hard sciences are at a B&M school but really not sure.

 

That is ture, you could pick up six hours in 30 minutes.

 

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I strongly recommend that you contact the schools you are thinking about and ask them if your plan will work. You can get opinions here, but it would be safest to go to the source.

 

thanks everyone

wow 6 credits for Analyzing and Interpreting Literature ? Nice.

Question regarding fema courses, the list thats floating around on which fema courses TESC will accept, a few of them are no longer on the ISP list, can I assume that courses that say they are worth 1 college credit, TESC will accept or they have to be on some type of approved FEMA list put out by TESC??

 

The two US history, the two Western Civ and the Humanities and Social Science CLEP exams also offer 6 credits, but you can get 12 apiece for the Spanish, French and German language exams, assuming you have a pretty solid knowledge of any of those languages. Whether an exam is easy can often be determined by your prior knowledge, but absent that I would agree with the above list of exams as being "easiest".

 

Fema

Question regarding fema courses, the list thats floating around on which fema courses TESC will accept, a few of them are no longer on the ISP list, can I assume that courses that say they are worth 1 college credit, TESC will accept or they have to be on some type of approved FEMA list put out by TESC??

 

What are your 18 credits in? Could you use ALEKS to pick up at least some of what you need? If you can complete a math course in a month, that's 3 credits for $20. (And remember, you only need 70% to pass.) Just make sure they don't equate to something you already have.

Looks like you have:
18 credits
24 credits from FEMA - See this LIST HERE for current courses that are on the approved TESC list. (You can get 25 credits here, but then you'd need 5 more, and that would likely end up being 6, thanks to way most tests/options are worked.)

So that already puts you at 42. You could take the Analyzing and Interpreting Literature CLEP to pick up the last 6.

Or check out ALEKS. You've got some time until November. You could work in two ALEKS classes for the 6 credits and spend less money than it would cost you to take the CLEP. (Conversely, you could save yourself time over money, and take the exam.)

Hmm. You mention taking the hard science courses at a B&M school. Perhaps you should take the maths there as well, so maybe using ALEKS wouldn't suit you, unless money is an issue at the moment.

All that set aside for a minute, I agree with Michael. I think you need to contact any school you are interested in and find out what they require/accept as far as the other part of your questions goes.

 

thanks cj, that link is VERY helpful !

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ok, this is not a med school, but Columbia University's Nursing program doesn't require any "hard" courses;
well, technically they do require anatomy and physiology and microbiology, but they accept the excelsior exams for meeting those requirements

I attended an open house once to get info and they announced it while talking about the application process. The only B&M courses they require are chemistry and then only if you're going into Nurse Anesthesia Masters Program.
Other than that you don't need any chemistry at all.

this is their ETP (Entry To Practice) program
its for people who have a non-nursing BS degree
so you go full time (and I do mean FULL TIME: 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 12 months) and get a BS in nursing and then are automatically enrolled in the masters degree program

here's the program
Columbia University School of Nursing

the list of courses you take is at the bottom

and here's a list of the masters specialties
Columbia University School of Nursing

 

That is your best advice.

I will give you something in addition to think about. Med schools get more applications than they have slots. That means they can be very selective. It doesn't matter what you think (or I think or anyone else here thinks) is an acceptable route in; what matters is what the admission committee thinks.

I believe some B&M schools are requiring a course or two be taken online so that probably won't hurt you. The appearance of looking for the easy route probably won't help you. I would suggest taking the online courses from a reputable B&M school and then finishing up the labs there also.

 

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