<p>Okay so I am going to be attending a local Penn State campus in Information Science and technology and then 2 years later obviously i finish as University Park. However penn state is quite expensive for me considering i didn't get much aid and my dad is going to help me with 4 of the 13 thousand that i normally would have to pay a year. </p>
<p>In order to cut lots of costs I have decided that I will do anyway to obtain cheap transferable credits to Penn State. I'm going to attempt to obtain around 21 credits through CLEP testing (my spanish is worth 12 if i pass) and then more at a local transferable community college.</p>
<p>I plan on taking 6 credits at a local community college and hopefully 18 through my 3 clep tests. In the fall i will take 12 credits at penn state at a whopping 420 a credit with hardly any aid but i have money saved up enough to cover that first semester easy enough. After that I plan on taking a leave of absence from penn state and taking 15 credits at that same local community college in the spring along with 6 more in the summer of 09 with 3 credits from a CLEP test. This should give me a total of 60 credits, however only 12 are from Penn State but all of them should transfer.</p>
<p>From there I should have cut enough costs to be able to handle the final 60 credits at Penn State itself without ending in much debt.</p>
<p>My question really now is....will it ever hurt my chances for good employment becuase over 1 1/2 years worth of credits were taken from a community college and CLEP testing? I mean in terms of will i be looked at the same as any other Penn State Graduate to an employer? I know it sounds dumb but I'm really trying to cut costs here.</p>
<p>Also on a side note how does my plan sound? I am not going to a community college for my first 2 years becuase honestly i am a senior with very bad high school record becuase of my first 2 1/2 years. I don't want to loose the chance of university park eventually now that I am already accepted. Because of my poor past mistakes i have to resort in cutting costs other ways.</p>