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This is still bugging me, especially since I slid in with a horrible fail on FAR. My bachelor’s isn’t in accounting. I started out and got an associates as a paralegal and worked in that field for almost ten years. My pursuit was law school. While working there, I had to obtain a bachelors in ANYTHING to get into law school. They had an accelerated bachelors that was just on the weekends 8 hours per day. Since I had three young kids, I did that. Then skip a bunch of non working years to take care of my disabled son. Basically, I earned my bachelor’s in business and could not go to law school. My kid needed me more and I do not regret that. Fast forward to 2014. I went back and got my associates degree in accounting without even aiming to take the cpa. It was at an interview, that the interviewor asked me if I would leave to take my cpa. I kind of looked at him funny, went home and researched it, applied and was eligible to sit. My bachelor’s had all the high end accounting. My associates had the forefront and there’s a ten year gap, so believe me I’m confused.
What really made me mad was I paid cash for an associatea at a community college and was in my last semester when I realized the college I graduated from had a post bacc in accounting. ALL classes listed on it, I had taken at community! The college said I could transfer my credits in but no matter what, thirty have to be taken there, 12 of which include accounting. Because my gpa was near a 4.0 there, they offered me a 17,000 presidential scholarship but the glitch to that is online classes are 415. On campus is 830. If I take the scholarship, I HAVE to take on campus courses. The scholarship would just bring me down to the cost of online tuition. So all I need is ten classes which you would think at 415 a credit is five grand. No they quoted me almost five per semester. AND another college told me there are No grants for a second bachelor’s and no subsidized loans, only unsubsidized so interest ticks on day one of attending college.
It’s just the more I look at ads for jobs, the requirements say bachelor’s MUST be in accounting. I’ve even seen numerous ads that day CPA required with bachelor’s in accounting ONLY.
This is really bugging me and it’s sort of all I talk about. I have an appointment with a college next week 100 miles from my house for an macc program. The classes are online, the advisory said I don’t have to take the prerequisites since I took them. They offer transient classes. I can take two of the macc classes without signing up for the program to see if I like it, then those will be applied. She also said I can get financial aid and loans. Cost of the macc is estimated at 19k. She did say you can life experience out of some of the ten required core classes- which I see at least two I rolled my eyes out. This program also has one core class which is nothing more than giving you the cpa exam over and over until you pass. And then that all went to the birds when the graduate director in another email tried to tell me that gov and nfp is 16 to 20 percent of the test, but only 4 to 5 percent since it’s four tests. I laughed so hard at that. I thought it’s an macc to prepare you for the exam, and you guys don’t understand what the heck you are talking about.
Anyone’s bachelor not in accounting? Do you work in accounting? I’m not looking at big fours at all!
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