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Re: College Credits
« Reply #80 on: October 31, 2010, 10:06:47 AM »
How about Portuguese? ;)
My wife isn't all that proficient in portuguese :)
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Re: College Credits
« Reply #81 on: October 31, 2010, 11:49:20 PM »
I know someone who grew up through the yeshiva world system - but did not have a very good ivrit at all - did reasonably well - i think 12 out of 16 credits...if I recall correctly, she had a problem with one of the essays due to its being about terrorism - and the words yeri and pitzutz got her confused.  By and large - if you can read chumash rishonim, and peirushim on navi, as most girls r required to do today in the BY system, should be able to do a decent job on it...

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Re: College Credits
« Reply #82 on: December 07, 2010, 03:24:07 AM »
Review of Reuven Frankel's book "the Bochurs Guide to College"

The purpos of the book is to show you how you can attain a college degree without ever steping foot on a college campus, and giving the student the msot fleability in chosing the materials they will learn that are not directly related to the concentration (e.g. Liberal arts).

He goes through the various ways of distance learning and the otion available in each category.
These are:
Online courses directly from prospetive colleges all over the country;
Correspondes study. While still avaible at some institutions, it is quicly being replaced by online courses;
Credit-by-exam. This is perhaps the most powerfull way IMO which gives the tudent the most flexability in choosing what to study for and doing it and their own pace. 

He goes through all the ways off abtaining credit by exams (many of which we's been disscussing in this thread).
Some of these include AP -advaced placement testing, CLEP's, ACE, and other like GRE. While GRE is meat as a screening device when entaring graduate schools, some undergraduate schools will award credits based on you score on these tests, as much as 30 credits is possible.

Other things dicussed are community programs like COOP, AHS (which he is the dean of), TTI etc. Whith AHS for example, one can get many credits just from Judiac and Hebraic studies n tests. So if you went through a yeshiva of Beis Yaakov youl have an easy time preparing for and taking these tests.

To acually get the degree one needs to be enroled in a college for a year or two. He highly recommends Excelsior Collge and Charter Oak Collge because of their extreem flexability in allowing you to get credits from so many different places, including yeshivah credits.
I highly recommend the book and think it is a great investment.
(Please excuse spelling, I'm on my mobile).
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Re: College Credits
« Reply #83 on: December 08, 2010, 06:18:51 PM »
any new ideas regarding relatively inexpensive online classes??  mainly for English comp 1 and 2

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Re: College Credits
« Reply #84 on: December 09, 2010, 03:12:34 PM »
any new ideas regarding relatively inexpensive online classes??  mainly for English comp 1 and 2

Not exactly what you're looking for, but if your school accepts GRE exams and awards credit for it, it can be an amazing value. Depending on your score (and the school) you'll get between 3 and 30 credits for the price of $160.

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Re: College Credits
« Reply #85 on: December 09, 2010, 10:26:11 PM »
any new ideas regarding relatively inexpensive online classes??  mainly for English comp 1 and 2

PLEASE!

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Re: College Credits
« Reply #86 on: December 09, 2010, 10:27:01 PM »
any new ideas regarding relatively inexpensive online classes??  mainly for English comp 1 and 2

A lot of people pass English comp with essay clep.. it's 6 credits..

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Re: College Credits
« Reply #87 on: December 12, 2010, 05:24:01 PM »
A lot of people pass English comp with essay clep.. it's 6 credits..
thanx

i would like to take the CLEP -- except the test recently changed-- (no called college english)
and is more difficult (2 essays vs 1)  so i need a back up!!
any ideas?
thanx

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Re: College Credits
« Reply #88 on: December 12, 2010, 09:19:15 PM »

i would like to take the CLEP -- except the test recently changed-- (no called college english)
and is more difficult (2 essays vs 1)  so i need a back up!!
any ideas?
thanx
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I didn't hear about this..how recent is this? i'm not so happy about this..

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Re: College Credits
« Reply #89 on: December 12, 2010, 10:00:01 PM »
it changed this past summer i think in august........

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Re: College Credits
« Reply #90 on: December 12, 2010, 10:55:00 PM »
it changed this past summer i think in august........
didn't hear about this... friend just took the test and didn't say a word about that.. look into it.

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Re: College Credits
« Reply #91 on: January 11, 2013, 02:24:13 PM »
I need 6 credits to graduate with my BA
3 need to be in public speaking and the remaining 3 can be any elective
Can anyone recommend an easy 3 credit online course that does not require much work (have a full time job and a kid) I once took a class that required a lot of participating in group discussions.
I also need an online PS class (i know there are some that do exist...)


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Re: College Credits
« Reply #92 on: January 11, 2013, 02:56:34 PM »
I need 6 credits to graduate with my BA
3 need to be in public speaking and the remaining 3 can be any elective
Can anyone recommend an easy 3 credit online course that does not require much work (have a full time job and a kid) I once took a class that required a lot of participating in group discussions.
I also need an online PS class (i know there are some that do exist...)
check out straighterline.com

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Re: College Credits
« Reply #93 on: January 11, 2013, 03:23:05 PM »
Question: I assume all you guys are just looking for the degree itself, (i.e. to be able to say on a job app that you have one,) not for the knowledge, right?

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Re: College Credits
« Reply #94 on: January 12, 2013, 11:40:22 PM »
Question: I assume all you guys are just looking for the degree itself, (i.e. to be able to say on a job app that you have one,) not for the knowledge, right?
I got all the knowledge I need from the first 114 credits ;)

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Re: College Credits
« Reply #95 on: January 12, 2013, 11:41:26 PM »
check out straighterline.com

Thanks,
Can you recommend any specific classes?