need advice on transferable credits

[karen4you]

Hi I have a question that I hope someone might be able to answer. I graduated in 97 with an AS degree. Now, I want to change my career. I want to take courses to become a teacher at a university. My question is, will my units still be valid. I have alot of units from the past and my grade point was a B average. Will they still honor my degree as solid and valid. I believe they would accept me as a Junior in a university, but is it too late? I'm really excited of this new change and I would be soooo disappointed if they did not honor my past acheivemets. I hope someone can help. I live in California and want to apply to Cal State San Bernardino (If that helps). Thanks and Happy New year. God Bless, Karen

 

[ZACTAK]

I would check with the university you want to attend. I know most colleges will not accept credits that are more than 8 years old, but I don't know if that also applies to associate degrees.

 

[Barren]

I was looking into a program offereded in San Diego, CA and Farmington, NM. Both schools said that classes had to have a recency of five years or less.

 

[fuzzyh]

That said, there may be plenty of things that you can test out of. Each school will be a little bit different in that regard. I would recommend that you contact different schools and find out what their requirements are.


Typically the things that I notice that tend to need to be redone is requirements for the major and writing skills. I've heard of schools requiring students to take those classes over again and everything else is ok.

Pray about it and see what happens. The only downside I see is having to pay more money for school. The extra work and information will be valuable for you in the long run, especially as a university teacher.

Btw, what are you looking at teaching?