The Ultimate CLEP Student’s Guide To myEdu
As a distance-learning student, navigating the confusing world of college can almost seem to require a degree of its own. The process is confusing enough for normal students, but, throw in a little credit-by-exam or a few transferred courses, and it becomes almost impossible.
Thankfully, there is a solution. Built to help all students manage their degree process, myEdu provides a convenient central location to plan your path and measure your progress. While it does not completely replace an academic adviser or college coach, this online program can help you keep a handle on things between consultations.
Let me introduce you to some of the best features this free service provides.
Pre-College
As you prepare for your college career, this website provides a number of useful tools.
Search Colleges
Using data on tuition costs, financial aid, admissions rates, and more for thousands of colleges, their search college feature will let you compare colleges and even degree programs. Bookmarking the best options, you can easily choose the best opportunities without wasting hours of time browsing websites and calling admissions offices.
From admissions requirements to graduation rates, they provide all the information you need to know to make an informed decision.
Assess Your CLEP Options
Most useful for SpeedyPrep users, myEdu includes a tool that will let you assess which colleges will take your CLEP credits. Simply enter your credit and the colleges you are considering and, viola!, the instant results tell you what credits will be excepted and how much they will save you.
With quite a bit of vague information online, this amazing tool is perfect for people who understand the power of CLEP tests.
Degree Comparison
Also using their incredible database of information, you can easily search and compare degrees. Not only do they provide course information, but they also provide degree templates, difficulty ratings, and career information.
College
Once you are enrolled in college, the usefulness of this web application is only beginning.
Class Scheduling
As you plan your semester, myEdu can help you optimize your class time by automatically finding the best classes for your degree and timing preferences. Even better, this amazing program will assign the classes with the best rated professors and highest average GPA.
Once you have adjusted the automatic results as necessary, it will also tell you which textbooks you will need to order.
Balance Your Workload
With over one-third of college dropouts referencing the large workload, managing your time properly is crucial to avoiding college burnout. Using the difficulty ratings assigned to courses on myEdu, you can easily optimize your semester load to include a range of difficulties.
Not only does this decrease stress and improve your GPA, but it will actually help you learn better!
Daily Calendar
Although plenty of other calendar options are available, the myEdu calendar is auto updated from the class schedule. Using this feature, you can easily see your week’s plan and avoid missing your deadlines.
Conclusion
As a distance-learning student, myEdu is an invaluable resource – particularly while assessing a school’s CLEP policy. As more schools and data are added to the site, this resource will only improve.