[Anonymous]

To take 22 credit hours at a community college in the fall semester? I would never think of doing that at a university, but am just wondering how hard the classes are at a cc? All but 1 of them would be online. Fortunately, I don’t work but I have a 2 and 7 year old. I have free time while my little one naps (about 3 hours a day) and then after he goes to bed, so realistically can spend about 5 hours a day on coursework. I should hopefully be done with my last exam the week after classes start.

[Anonymous]

Anyone? Doable? Not doable?

[Anonymous]

it depends on what type of classes..For example music, history, plastering, plumbing, ecology, geography, and things like that should be doable…

[Anonymous]

I took 15 hours while working full time during tax season. I think its doable if you take the right classes. The online classes I took really didnt require much time or effort, so I think it is doable, yes.

[Sandra]

Totally doable. I don't think 4 classes are that big of a deal really provided you don't fall behind.

[M.O.D.]

Not if you include Intermediate accounting. I recommend 3-4 classes max.

BA Mathematics, UC Berkeley
Certificates in CPA and EA preparation, College of San Mateo
CMA I 420, II 470
FAR 91, AUD Feb 2015 (Gleim self-study)

[Anonymous]

Thanks guys. It would actually be 7 classes… but if dp143 took 15 hours working full-time, I'm going to give 22 a try. The classes I'm taking are…

Keyboarding – lol – I can probably type 60-70 wpm

Spanish 1 (took 6 years of this in middle school/high school, but don't have any college credit for it)

Photography (bought a DSLR when our kids were born that I have yet to learn how to use)

Information Literacy (an Office 2010 class – again lol!)

Entrepreneurship – sounded cool

Intro to Psychology

and then one other I still need to decide on.

These should all be easy – I just hope there's not a lot of busy work. I've never taken a community college class before so don't know how time consuming they'll be.

[Anonymous]

Are you just going back to school for fun or is this for the credit requirement?

At least you've already passed three sections of the CPA Exam so those look like a breeze compared to what you've been preparing for 😀

[mla1169]

I think its doable but I'm not sure I'd WANT to with a 2 year old and 7 year old. If theres no real rush, I think I'd split it up over 2 semesters, and just enjoy yourself a bit more. I mean, you've been killing yourself studying for the exams, why not ease up a bit?

FAR- 77
AUD -49, 71, 84
REG -56,75!
BEC -75

Massachusetts CPA (non reporting) since 3/12.

[Anonymous]

@CashMoney – you can't be serious! I wish I was doing this for fun… however, I can think of much more exciting things to do if I had a choice 🙂 I need 22 more hours to meet the 150 requirement. I can't take any classes that are equivalent to ones I have already taken at Virginia Tech, so all of the business ones except for Entrepreneurship are out. It drives me crazy that I have to do this just for the sake of having 150 hours… I wish they would grandfather those of us in who got Bachelor's degrees prior to the 150 hour requirement. Since there are no requirements to what the hours have to be in, I'm taking the cheap and easy way out.

@mla – the reason I'm hoping to take all 22 hours in the fall is because if I apply for the CPA license in the same year as I pass the last part of the exam, I won't need any CPE credits. And since I don't work right now, I'd have to pay for all of that out of pocket if I apply next year. Now if I don't pass REG in August, my plan will be all messed up. I've been wanting to get my CPA license since 2001, and now that I'm so close to being there, I'm getting impatient!

Thanks everyone for responding!

[mdrobbin]

@apbandj… good news is if you take intro to psychology like you mentioned you can probably diagnose yourself with regards to the title of your thread 😛

I would say it's doable but an enormous challenge. Sounds like you need to be prepared for not a lot of sleep. If it has to be done, then it's doable.

Good luck to you and congrats on your scores so far!

FAR - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER)
AUD - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
BEC - 2012 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES)
REG - 2013 - PASSED (YAEGER + NINJA NOTES + NINJA AUDIO)

ETHICS - 2013 - PASSED

DONE!!! Thank you A71 for all the support! Hiya!!!

[Anonymous]

I just registered for Spanish-Beg Level at the local community college. Note: Spanish is my first language.lol

[jenuno01]

@CPATerminator, As you know, Spanish is also my first language…when I was in college I took the CLEP exams and tested out of Spanish and received 12 credit hours! Have you heard of this program? It's mad cheap, I think I paid less than $100 for those 12 credits…and the test was super easy…It takes about 2 hours, I didn't study at all for it. You should check it out!

Class of 2012

[Anonymous]

@jenuno…wow..I did not know that existed. I just checked with my local community college and they offer that. Was it like really really easy? Does it have a writing portion? Thanks…

[Tux]

Don't underestimate classes at a community college!

I took my accounting classes at community college to meet the CPA exam requirements since my bachelor degree was in marketing. Those classes kicked my butt!

The classes you're taking don't sound that hard, but they will all have deadlines, projects and exams which will often be due at the same time. With 2 little kids, I personally wouldn't take on that much.

If the only reason you're doing this is to avoid CPE's next year, that doesn't seem like a big enough reason. As a CPA, we will all have to do CPE's from now until we retire, so that's a small price to pay for getting your license AND not killing yourself in the meantime.

I say – it's not worth it. Split it into 2 semesters.

FAR - 86 - 2/27/14
AUD - 75 - 5/29/14
BEC - 80 - 8/31/14
REG - 89 - 2/27/15
Praise Jesus! I'm done!!

Study resources:
Becker
Wiley test bank

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone for your replies!

I looked into the CLEP exam that someone mentioned, but I don't qualify because you have to be enrolled in a program. Since I'm just taking random classes and not working towards a degree or certificate, it won't work 🙁

This is such a hard decision… in some ways, I don't want to do it b/c I'm sure it will be a lot of work. But then again, if I go hard for 3.5 months, I'll be done in December vs. dragging it out til May (and save some money, too). What I might do is sign up and take the classes for the first couple of weeks, and then if I find it's not manageable I can always drop them.

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