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As an American with no high school diploma who is currently thinking maybe I should start worrying about immigration at some point in the next twenty-thirty years just in case, what is the cheapest way to get an undergraduate degree that isn't fake preferably online? I also have one year of a masters program down, so I could knock off the second year really easily. I don't need the school to be good or to learn anything. (Could be a nice bonus. Maybe grammar and spelling would be nice.) I am already basically in the upper level of my field and nobody has ever asked where I went to school before.
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Jul 5, 2020 14:50
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Yeah sounds good you'll be fine
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Jul 5, 2020 15:35
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Kill someone and steal their diploma.
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Jul 5, 2020 15:35
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You don't need to go to school you can learn everything you'll need to learn in life here at the SomethingAwful.com forums, friend
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Jul 5, 2020 15:36
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Schweinhund posted:Kill someone and steal their diploma. The psychological, emotional, and spiritual cost of murder is way higher than the monetary cost of the average degree.
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Jul 5, 2020 15:37
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How did u get 1 year of a Master's with no college degree? Or are u asking cuz u had a fake degree to qualify for the masters
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Jul 5, 2020 15:53
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Sprue posted:How did u get 1 year of a Master's with no college degree? Or are u asking cuz u had a fake degree to qualify for the masters I got in on my portfolio when I visited the school to attend a workshop and had to attend a single credit of community college at another local school at the same time. I don’t know. The Persian Funk posted:The psychological, emotional, and spiritual cost of murder is way higher than the monetary cost of the average degree. For me professionally a degree is literally worthless. I was just looking into a backup plan of moving to Canada or south east Asia and realized my work experience won’t mean anything to someone deciding if I get to enter their country.
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Jul 5, 2020 16:43
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The Persian Funk posted:The psychological, emotional, and spiritual cost of murder is way higher than the monetary cost of the average degree. [citation needed]
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Jul 5, 2020 16:49
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Online colleges are scams. Their purpose is to extract guaranteed loans from the government, and put you on the hook for them. Private colleges are pretty much the same. State/community schools are the least bad option. Online/Private colleges will be easier to get a degree from (they are literally degree mills after all), but will cost more, State/Community colleges will cost less, but will generally be hypersensitive about the coursework mattering a lot. Never tell a state/community college professor/lecturer/whatever that none of it really matters or is a waste of time and you've got "real work" to do or they will flip their poo poo as their world shatters around them.
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Jul 5, 2020 17:01
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pop punk posted:As an American with no high school diploma who is currently thinking maybe I should start worrying about immigration at some point in the next twenty-thirty years just in case, what is the cheapest way to get an undergraduate degree that isn't fake preferably online? I also have one year of a masters program down, so I could knock off the second year really easily. There are some state colleges (not degree mills) that have pretty "affordable" online tuition rates for students - even for students without residency status in that particular state. "Affordable", however, still means considerable debt unless you score some grant money or scholarships. Pulvis Sumus fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Jul 5, 2020 |
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Jul 5, 2020 17:05
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rob a bank instead
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Jul 5, 2020 17:05
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LabyaMynora posted:Online colleges are scams. Their purpose is to extract guaranteed loans from the government, and put you on the hook for them. I would never tell someone their job is worthless. That’s mean. People need to learn that on their own. Also I know a lot of teachers in my field know it’s a scam and I don’t want to blow up their spot. I am now realizing community colleges might do online courses? Hell yeah. I would feel weird showing up on a campus.
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Jul 5, 2020 17:06
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luchajones posted:rob a bank instead Rob a bank to get a college degree to look better on paper for foreign countries if my country starts collapsing? I feel like most people didn’t read my post. pop punk fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Jul 5, 2020 |
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Jul 5, 2020 17:07
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*Takes deep breath* I think the safe answer here is to find an ACCREDITED community college, and knock out as many requirements as you can at a discount rate, then transfer to formal college and take as few courses as you can get away with. A few handy tips to make this work:
I've heard online/for-profit colleges can work if you are going into a field that's super skill-driven, like coding or cooking, because potential employers will just ask you to demonstrate your skills, and the degree is purely cursory. However I would assume that anything that CAN be a scam WILL be a scam. Source: A few years ago I did pretty much exactly what you're trying to do, and it worked out. I have a great job for a great company and occasionally get offers to work overseas--temporarily and permanently--although so far nothing great. Prof. Crocodile fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jul 5, 2020 |
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Jul 5, 2020 18:33
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online colleges, even online-only places, aren't necessarily scams, but you've got to do some research. there are places that don't require a high school diploma, but the only one I can think of is MIT, which is if nothing else not gonna be cheap. see what the requirements are for starting a degree at your local technical school, and see about how transferring to a state school would work. tuition for both of those is generally subsidized by the state. scholarships are the ideal solution, but I'm not sure how you'd wrangle that in this situation. I honestly think it might be easier to get a free master's that's worthwhile than a free bachelor's that is (depending on the field)
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Jul 5, 2020 18:35
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Yeah OP the answer is to find a good community college.
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Jul 5, 2020 18:45
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just watch all the lectures on youtube. then pirate the textbook and read it. write a 5,000 word post on the subject then GBS will grade it
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Jul 5, 2020 19:14
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Purdue is a really good online university. I hear they are [open source].
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Jul 5, 2020 19:19
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pop punk posted:For me professionally a degree is literally worthless. I was just looking into a backup plan of moving to Canada or south east Asia and realized my work experience won’t mean anything to someone deciding if I get to enter their country. A degree might qualify you for some lottery programs but that's nothing to bank on. If you're going to set money on fire evaluating how to get off the sinking ship you should probably splurge for an immigration consultation for your target country first to understand exactly your pathways.
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Jul 5, 2020 20:19
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pop punk posted:For me professionally a degree is literally worthless. I was just looking into a backup plan of moving to Canada or south east Asia and realized my work experience won’t mean anything to someone deciding if I get to enter their country. because of NAFTA there is certain professions that get automatic work permits in USA/Canada. if you become a librarian for example you can just cross into canada and accept a job offer. you dont even need to fill out a form or anything ahead of time they will take care of it at the border. of course this applies to the before times. if you want to get into canada right now i suggest you move to detroit and buy a small boat.
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Jul 5, 2020 21:05
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Trump University gives you all the tools you need to succeed at affordable prices
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Jul 5, 2020 21:08
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Have you heard of the school of hard knocks op
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Jul 5, 2020 21:57
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Tbh if all you think about is better chances of legal immigration... I don't know if it'll matter much in 4 years that will take you to get the degree. Having a shitton of money is almost always preferable, they don't really take in any idiot who knows how to touch computers anymore. If you don't got a shitton of money and don't think that you will when things go down, consider alternative methods
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Jul 5, 2020 21:59
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Rutibex posted:because of NAFTA there is certain professions that get automatic work permits in USA/Canada. if you become a librarian for example you can just cross into canada and accept a job offer. you dont even need to fill out a form or anything ahead of time they will take care of it at the border. I'd file ahead at this point though, these days they're less likely to wave you through with a 1 month check up while you're waiting on the background checks to come back on your criminal record and degree/work experience. So you want that stuff in the database by the time you enter or you might be turning around or sleeping in the immigration office if you use the just show up route.
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Jul 5, 2020 22:04
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at big universities there's too many students for the professors to notice if you aren't enrolled, and their course catalogues are usually online just start attending classes and they will eventually give you a degree I think this was they did in "good will hunting", I haven't seen it
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Jul 5, 2020 22:34
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I served in the Army National Guard and proudly defended FREEDOM from Canada and now I have a masters digree
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Jul 6, 2020 02:24
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Find a local tech school with a good variety of transfer agreements. See what kind of online options those schools have. I did like 75% of my AA/BA online without having to go to a physical classroom.
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Jul 6, 2020 02:59
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Just get a job OP. They are going to just teach you everything anyway.
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Jul 6, 2020 03:37
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everest college is an affordable fun and easy way to get an education online for only 200 dollars our website is down right now cuz it caught corona but if u just venmo me the 2 hundy u can start telling ur friends ur a paralegal whate ver that is
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Jul 6, 2020 03:40
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Just lmao if you dont think the US is gonna take the rest of the world down with it when it fully collapses in the next few years. Emigrate to where?
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Jul 6, 2020 04:56
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The Persian Funk posted:The psychological, emotional, and spiritual cost of murder is way higher than the monetary cost of the average degree. Wrong
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pop punk posted:As an American with no high school diploma who is currently thinking maybe I should start worrying about immigration at some point in the next twenty-thirty years just in case, what is the cheapest way to get an undergraduate degree that isn't fake preferably online? I also have one year of a masters program down, so I could knock off the second year really easily. online degrees used to be a joke but who the ffffffffffffffuck knows what the future will hold post-covid. tbh most colleges are scrambling to adapt, if not in outright panic free-fall, so standards for entry have probably never been lower. local scholarships are either experiencing no applicants or have held off accepting folks at all this year. no one fuckin knows. re: getting it cheap, most universities used to offer free classes to employees and direct family, but these have been curtailed severely in recent years. you'll probably need a union job in a college for that benefit, but if you can swing it, it's a sweet gig. when i start posting to the frontpage again i'm going to collaborate on some knifedad articles with a lady who got a degree from Harvard for free that way.
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Jul 6, 2020 06:44
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I was thinking something along these lines OP, but in my case just for fun. And found this EU based uni, which is way cheaper than US ones and should probably not matter to you where it is geographically since its online. Also, it seems to me that EU online universities should be less scammy, can anyonr confirm/deny? https://www.domuni.eu/en/learning/bachelor-in-theology---year-1/
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Jul 6, 2020 09:41
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Just finish your masters. Master sounds cooler.
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Jul 6, 2020 12:32
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Cubone posted:at big universities there's too many students for the professors to notice if you aren't enrolled, and their course catalogues are usually online you can definitely sneak into university classes and learn everything they are learning for free. you can even tell the professor what you are doing and 99% of the time they won't care. they will not under any circumstances give you a degree unless you pay them (a lot)
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Jul 6, 2020 12:45
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earned my degree at the school of big knockers
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Jul 7, 2020 15:56
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kazr posted:earned my degree at the school of big knockers It's the tits!
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Jul 7, 2020 16:28
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kazr posted:earned my degree at the school of big knockers I'm self taught.
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Jul 7, 2020 16:32
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I got my degree from a nearby state school, was able to do some classes online and some in-person. There's plenty of real (accredited, recognizable name) universities and colleges that offer online courses these days. But the thing is, online courses for the most part are loving terrible. Online education is pretty much a giant side-hustle for the schools, and sometimes even the professors (I had plenty of instructors who had other jobs and only taught part time, or taught at one school during the day and did online courses elsewhere). Some things work fine online, some instructors manage to do a decent job with the limitations inherent to online learning, but overall poo poo was far from academically rigorous, put it that way. But it sounds like OP kinda wants a degree mill so eh whatever.
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SO DEMANDING posted:I got my degree from a nearby state school, was able to do some classes online and some in-person. online learning does indeed "work fine" for a lot of things. and its great because it doesnt require a lot of effort on the professors part. so much so that you can do online courses from top universities for free. they dont give a gently caress you can get the reading list and the lectures on their web sites: https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm you can become educated for free very easily. obtaining credentials is another story of course
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