Associate of Arts or Associates of science?

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Hey y'all! I'm new here and in my first semester of college. I live in NC and am doing my first two years at a community college before transferring to a university. My question is would an associate of arts or associate of science be better? My first advisor (he left) put me in Associate of arts track and my new advisor thinks I should do the associate of science track. In your experience, which is better?

thank you! i just wish that was closer to me, i'll email the advisor to see what I can do

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thank you! i just wish that was closer to me, i'll email the advisor to see what I can do

What university are you looking in to?

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that one was for WSU which you still need a prior Bachelors or a Associates to get in that program just asked my niece who is in that program, I'm just going to do WGU online for the BSN, i'll still have to get my RN first. Washington is a tricky state with this

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Hey y'all! I'm new here and in my first semester of college. I live in NC and am doing my first two years at a community college before transferring to a university. My question is would an associate of arts or associate of science be better? My first advisor (he left) put me in Associate of arts track and my new advisor thinks I should do the associate of science track. In your experience, which is better?

I did my degree this way - completing an associate's first and transferring for a bachelor's. Go onto your university's website and print out the course requirements for the bachelor's degree. Find which courses are available and transferrable from your community college. Then print out the requirements for each associate's degree that interests you and see which you will likely complete when you satisfy your bachelor's degree requirements. For me, the degree that I ended up with was an associate's of arts in general studies. That degree satisfied all of my general education requirements for my bachelor's degree. Many of my nursing school prerequisites satisfied the science requirements of my associates degree. The math requirement was satisfied by statistics. If you find yourself a bit overwhelmed trying to figure it out, you can PM me. I love planning stuff and I'm in a bit of OCD withdraw since this is my first fall not in school since 2010. :)

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I just received my AA in Ky and just applied to WKU BSN. In KY there is an agreement between the technical college system and the four year public university that says with completion of your AA or AS you satisfy all gen ed prerequisite requirements for your bachelor degree. In my situation having my AA actually let me skip 4 other classes for my BSN that I would have had to take had I started as a freshman at WKU. every BSN program is different with there prereqs so I would definitely sit down with my advisor and see which track gets you there quickest with your chosen BSN program. Hope this helps and feel free to ask me if I can be of anymore help!

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I just received my AA in Ky and just applied to WKU BSN. In KY there is an agreement between the technical college system and the four year public university that says with completion of your AA or AS you satisfy all gen ed prerequisite requirements for your bachelor degree. In my situation having my AA actually let me skip 4 other classes for my BSN that I would have had to take had I started as a freshman at WKU. every BSN program is different with there prereqs so I would definitely sit down with my advisor and see which track gets you there quickest with your chosen BSN program. Hope this helps and feel free to ask me if I can be of anymore help!

That's not the case in NC. Each degree has different requirements. The only guarantees are the AA/AS eliminates any High School course deficiencies (I need that in my case. I have a GED) and if you have 3.0 GPA, you're guaranteed admission to at least one of the 16 UNC system schools.

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