Lawrie, good to see you posting here. I want to thank you for the bain4weeks.com. It was a great resource and an inspiration for me. I started with zero credits on 11/27/07 and earned 121 credits in sixty days. I'm still doing the Excelsior Business Strategy course, as it's a fixed 15 weeks. That's my final requirement, and I'll have my BS in General Business. I also registered for the GRE Pyschology, hoping to earn another 30 credits toward a second BS.
jonoshamrock, having just gone through the BAGB program, I can vouch that most of the bain4weeks.com roadmap is still quite viable. I suggest you simply take the roadmap and match it up credit for credit against the requirements in the Excelsior catalog. I'll try to describe briefly where I deviated from bain4weeks, to give you a general guide.
First of all, you have to take Excelsior Business Strategy now. There's no exam that covers the requirement. This is new since last fall.
Second, the six-credit CLEP Principles of Accounting is gone, as you know. There is a CLEP Financial Accounting, but no exam for Managerial Accounting. I took the Penn Foster Managerial Accounting course and finished it in about a week. I recommend taking more time than I took with it, though -- I was sweating my score on the proctored final exam. For the Financial Accounting, if you're confident in your preparation, you may want to take the DSST instead of the CLEP, in order to boost your GPA.
Third, the ECE Operations Management is gone -- I'm not sure just when it went away. You can take the TECEP to cover that requirement.
Finally, I strayed from the bain4weeks.com road map for a few of my electives. I took CLEP US History I and II and DSST Civil War and Reconstruction, instead of ECE Gerontology, DSST Principles of Counseling and CLEP Intro to Psychology.
I think that's about it. In hindsight, I might have saved a few bucks by taking some more DSSTs instead of ECEs (Organizational Behavior, Human Resources Management, Ethics, Statistics), but if you head down that road, be VERY careful with what you're doing, and consult your advisor. Things can get tricky with upper/lower level, and business/general studies credit totals.
If you search my user ID, you'll find another post where I list all the exams/courses I took. You might find that helpful. Good luck!
-Gary-
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