Two Options

College Search & Selection
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<p>This is a long post, so thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time to respond, i would like to add a poll but i am not sure if this format allows it.</p>

<p>I am at a crossroads.</p>

<p>I want to be a business analyst for McKinsey & Company or another consulting firm. (I don't want to specialize in any industry)</p>

<p>-I went to a college prep high school and did very well.
-Immediately after my first semester of community college I joined the Army.
-After about a year in the Army I realized that I missed learning.
-I spent every spare second of the next 4 years in the Army studying a myriad of business related concepts. I studied everything from aspects of different types of business structures to Entrepreneurialism to Real Estate to Finance to Forex to Internet Marketing/Web development to the more social stuff like body language and negotiation (short list , in no way encapsulates everything I dabbled in). I read an avg of 75 books a year.</p>

<p>I am a proponent of Capitalism, I assume private and for-profit institutions are higher quality, but of course I will always do proper due diligence before attending: Visit classes, obtain syllabuses, conduct research on professors, etc.</p>

<p>Option 1:
Test out of the rest of my bachelors (should only take a few months, can probably do some sort of concurrent enrollment option) and spend the next 3 years grabbing a couple Masters; MBA and Masters of International Finance. Not entirely set on those two, but the point is that I can get two or three masters in this timeframe.</p>

<p>Option 2:
Start a Bachelor's degree that will be particularly useful as a business analyst. Something like Business Intelligence and Analytics or Business Information Systems. Most of my credits will not transfer. I can always test out of the science, math, arts, and humanities bullshit that I learned in middle school.</p>

<p>Heres the kicker: Both of options will take the same amount of time, and both are FREE. (GI Bill + Yellow Ribbon)</p>

<p>Option two allows me to work on my Small Business Consulting Venture (I have a very unique model I am dying to try out), option two will probably require more of my time and make it much tougher for me to get anywhere with this Venture. This opportunity will generate residuals which will make my life better.</p>

<p>I am not worried about the difficulty of the coursework. I am concerned with the quality of education I will receive, I have attended 5 different undergraduate schools and been dissatisfied with ALL of them.</p>

<p>If doing option 2 I prefer to stay in the Los Angeles Area, if doing 2X Masters option I prefer International campuses</p>

<p>Thank You.</p>

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<p>These tend to be more school-prestige-conscious than most employers. Unfortunately, many of the most prestigious schools for these employers take few or no transfer students.</p>

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<p>For-profit colleges and universities in the US tend to have worse reputations than public and non-profit private colleges and universities in the US.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the response, I figure I’ll just get my resume to the right level, and then IF I still want to work for a big business consulting firm, THEN I will.</p>

<p>By no means do I want to start entry level somewhere and trade my time for next to nothing (under 70k/yr) unless I am also acquiring skills at a rate that is unprecedented.</p>

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<p>–I can always test out of the science, math, arts, and humanities **** that I learned in middle school.–</p>

<p>You don’t mind if I bristle while you so confidently dismiss these subjects and suggest that you learned everything you need to know about them in middle school. In fact, science and math are seldom taught in middle school, no matter how good your college preparation was–certainly not the science, math, arts, and humanities that a business analyst for McKinsey who doesn’t want to specialize in any field should know.</p>

<p>Your assumptions in your post are asinine, not the least the one that all for-profit institutions are better than non-profits.</p>

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<p>Listen… start a Bachelor’s at the best school you can get into… understand that college requires actual work you don’t just get to breeze through it by being smart from having read books… and dial your superiority attitude back around 300% because networking is extremely important for the kind of thing you want to do and you are coming off extremely negatively with this post. </p>

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<p>I’m curious what schools would allow you to “test out” to finish a degree; every school I’ve ever heard of requires students to spend time, usually the final 30 hours or so unless they have a some kind of joint degree/enrollment program, taking classes on campus.</p>

<p>I’m also curious about what these Master’s programs are that would accept you with such an undergraduate background.</p>

<p>So tell us what schools offer these options, and we’ll give you more concrete feedback on whether you should avail yourself of them.</p>

<p>Or, to be more direct: if your post isn’t a joke, then you’re in for a rude awakening when you actually contact any accredited school to discuss what you expect to do.</p>

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<p>Its called CLEP, DSST, and EXE exams… you can get a bachelors from any of the “big 3” Thomas Edison State College, Charter Oak, and I forget the third one. <a href=“http://bain4weeks.com/”>http://bain4weeks.com/&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>I was exaggerating when I said middle school. I meant high school/ stuff I’ve done post high school.</p>

<p>My frustration comes from going to classes where I don’t learn anything because my skill level is way higher than what is being taught and I end up getting C’s because I ace all tests and do no homework or study.</p>

<p>This is not a joke, i sometimes just feel like I should have actually taken the SAT’ and ACT and applied to schools in my junior year of high school. Then now I would be done with graduate school and working in a corporate environment… but I cant change the past, only the future.</p>

<p>I am sorry I cannot convey my points using body language or tone or pitch or anything else, so it is understandable that I may come off a bit harsh… but</p>

<p>I have flunked the easiest courses and I have made straight A’s in all AP classes, the only difference was the EFFORT I PUT IN.</p>

<p>Why do pre-requisites exist? (They should be recommendations not requirements)</p>

<p>----If I believe (after reviewing the syllabus) that I will benefit from the information presented in a class… why cant I just take that class???</p>

<p>Are there any business seminars that would deny me entrance if I pay the monetary cost associated? (No)
I can go to any “professional course” (insurance license, real estate brokers course, mortgage loan originators course, bartending school) so long as I pay what it costs.</p>

<p>Why cant traditional education be the same?</p>

<p>Why must I complete a bachelors If I already know the specific Masters programs I wish to pursue?</p>

<p>Maybe I’m just screwed up because I form my own opinions about things instead of letting my social conditioning/peer influences/authority figures make my decisions for me… OOPS sorry for being an Epistemologist.</p>

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<p>I’m calling ■■■■■: WHICH prep school does not make its students prepare for and take (multiple times) SAT, Subjects, adn ACT?</p>

<p>In case this isn’t a trolling post just a confused-kid one:
just so you know, Thomas Edison or Charter Oak will NOT get you to Business Analyst with McKinsey, nor do their classes represent what will be expected of you in college (at all). At real colleges you wouldn’t be frustrated by the classes, their pace and content.
The difference is about the same as between 8th grade algebra and linear algebra.
(Note that for an analyst’s job, your best path is a Math Major from a Top 25 university or some target LACs, OR a math-heavy major from one of the Top20 Business schools such as Notre Dame’s, Indiana Kelley, etc.)</p>

<p>Note: your use of “epistemologist” is wrong.</p>