Help Ocean County or Rio Salado for A&P and Micro?

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Hi I am an excelsior student, I need to decide between Ocean County or Rio Salado for A&P and Micro?

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Have you asked Excelsior if they'll accept either of them? That might help you make your decision.

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I took both at Rio Salado and it was a lot of work. Most of my "lectures was the instructor basically retyping the text on the screen and giving you a list of websites to review (many links never worked.) Micro was probably the worst, my instructor was very immature at least her emails reflected that assumption. If you can get a class that is in-person I would say that would be better, don't get me wrong I learned what I needed to but I think the classroom setting would have been MUCH easier in comprehending all of this. Each week you will need to write Essays over selected topics and for your proctored midterms and finals it will be lots of multiple choice and a handful of essays.

Definitely look into what your school of choice accepts, some will not accept any of these courses from a distance learning curriculum. Good luck

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UGGHH I have to take a&p and micro online. How was your final grade in micro and a&P, anymore helpful info would be appreciated

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I received a B in all. All I can say that I busted my butt and shed lots and lots of tears trying to get through. I also dropped A&P 2 once because the instructor was so awful and nearly dropped Micro but fought my way through it.

If you are going to take it online I highly suggest putting a good hour or two each day to really get to know what you are looking at. Use everything that comes with your course all CDs and websites. I still think micro would have been a breeze in person because I could have used info in class to effectively see differences in the different slides (after a few hours EVERYTHING looked the same.) As for A&P I think it was better I used the lab CDs and all of the quizzes that came with it to learn the structures, I had personal issues with my son that interfered with my studies then. If you have any more direct questions just ask of PM me and I'll answer what I can.

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Have read positive comments about classes taken at Ocean County. If I were making this decision, I would choose Ocean, based on what I've read on this forum in the past.

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Thanks

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