Ashford University - Social Science :: Psychology

Very Satisfied

By: shannon_zook (In Progress) on January 1, 2009

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I am into my second class.  I am a 33 year old mother of a two year old, and wife to a man with two jobs.  There is just no way I can do the schedule of a community collage.  Honestly, even if I could the one time I had to deal with the community collage employees I wanted to pull my hair out.  My enrollment counselor has been absolutely amazing.  Calling me back close to 10 times over a months time to see how my choices were coming.  Always nice, never too pushy.  

As far as the cost of the books....they are expensive EVERYWHERE.  My husband went to a state collage for his bachelors and University of Phoenix for his MBA. No matter what school you go to books are always hard on the pocket book. It is harder, but you can still find Ashford books used too.  I have found an $80 for $30 and a $88 book for $42 both on EBAY. 

As far as my teachers so far the only one nit-picky thing I can think of is that it took 2 weeks to get our grades from the first week of assignments.  The only reason I say that is because I was SO excited to get my grades. By the way I have gotten full credit on every assignment so far.  
The assignments are all about writing.  As you can see I love to write so I have NO PROBLEM! Basically, you will have questions about your reading assignments, and one quiz or a written assignment.  My assignments so far have been essay style questions.  

As far as value.  Just as any other online degree it is very expensive, but as I have said before I do not have time to go to a traditional style collage, nor do I want to be in class with a bunch of 18 or 19 year old kids.  I LOVE not having a certain time I have to log in!  It is the only way to go! Yes, it will use all of the Stafford Loan money and yes I will owe them close to $40000 when I am done.  I will also be able to almost double my salary with the experience I already have. 

I researched and looked into every school you can imagine for over 3 months and they all have their flaws.  Ashford had the fewest. Bottom line that you will probably hear from your enrollment counselor is if you do not like to write and are not a self starter then this is not for you.  You have to be able to read 4 or 5 chapters at a time and write a response about what you read. It is a lot of work.   I spend about 5 hours a week doing my assignments.  Think about how much time I would have to spend if I had to drive to class 3 or 4 days a week.  

I hope this helps and if you have ANY questions feel free to drop me a line shannon_zook@yahoo.com

Shannon Zook