Advice on how many credits to attempt :)

Good morning,

Please forgive me if I've posted in the wrong area. I wanted to list the courses I plan to attempt within the next year and hopefully get some advice from the members here.

Here is the number of credits I currently have, what I need, and what I plan to attempt:

Charter Oak accepted 58 of my transfer credits towards a Individualized Studies BS
I've completed 8 FEMA courses accepted by Charter Oak

Which means I need 54 credits. I believe 36 of those 54 would need to be in a concentration. 30 of the 54 need to be upper level. 6 of them will be the corner and capstones. 9 will be liberal arts and corequisite courses.

I plan to attempt 8 tests before the year is over and am wondering if I am being realistic. Here is what I plan to attempt:

Management information systems, DSST
Principles of Macroeconomics, CLEP
Principles of Finance, DSST
Principles of Financial Accounting, DSST
Principles of Marketing, CLEP
Financial Institutions & Markets, TECEP
Federal Income Taxation, TECEP
Money & Banking, DSST

I tried to choose tests I'm interested in as well as those that would apply towards a concentration.

If all goes well, then next semester, I would attempt these tests:

Principles of Management, CLEP
Human Resource Relation, ECE
Labor Relations, ECE
Operations Management, TECEP
Strategic Management, TECEP
Organization Behavior, ECE
Business Ethics in Society, DSST


Any advice you guys may have would be awesome. I would try to take these in some type of order so that each builds upon the other. I'm actually already schedule for one of them.

 

Are you currently enrolling at COSC, or you're trying to get all the credits lineup before enrolling?

 

Completely possible - I looked at the military passing rates and took the free 10 question sample test for anything that had (1) a high military passing rate and (2) I knew something about. If I got more then 5 right on the free sample test I took the test without study. I was in the Army Reserve so the tests were free which as great because I did not care if I failed (from a cost perspective). I passed a lot of tests without study and only failed 2 - Global something or other and Government. Here is what I passed-
August
08-14-2002 DANTES Intro to Criminal Justice
08-14-2002 DANTES Intro to Law Enforcement

September
09-04-2002 DANTES Intro to Computing
09-04-2002 DANTES Organizational Behav
09-04-2002 DANTES Envir and Humanity
09-09-2002 DANTES – HR Management
09-09-2002 DANTES Tech Writing
09-09-2002 DANTES Intro to Business
09-12-2002 DANTES Here’s to you Health
09-17-2002 CLEP History and Social Science (read the Comex study guide)
09-19-2002 ECE Labor relations
09-22-2002 DANTES Ethics
09-22-2002 DANTES MIS
09-26-2002 ECE Production/Operation Mgt
09-30-2002 CLEP English w/essay

Graduated from COSC in January of 2003.

 

TEKMAN-I'm currently enrolled and will start classes October 29th

Randall-That's amazing! And so encouraging. After taking a second look at things, I may need dramatically less credits through testing I've signed up for my first three today and am hopeful!