College Degree Scam Detection Checklist
One of my favorite articles online is John T. Reed’s Real Estate B.S. Artist Detection Checklist. After profiling over 100 known scammers, he realized he couldn’t keep up with them all and gave his...
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Buying Classes vs. Buying Credits: Graduating Faster By Changing Your Strategy
Too many students are focused on the classes they need to take. English. Psychology. Biology. Accounting. It’s easy to see why. Pick up a college coursebook, and you’ll notice that degree programs are...
View ArticleThe Contrarian’s Cycle of Criticism, Acceptance, and Awe
I just wrote a massive guest post for I Will Teach You To Be Rich, the blog of New York Times best-selling author Ramit Sethi. It’s called “The Psychology of Putting Effectiveness Before Ego“, and it...
View ArticleThe myth of the high-paying major
Today, I want to tackle one of my favorite higher education topics: the “high-paying major.” We’ve all been told to select our majors with a direct career path in mind. According to this idea, we...
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Scott Young talks self-education and the DIY Degree at TEDx
Last month, my fellow self-education blogger Scott H. Young spoke at TEDxEastsidePrep, an independently organized TED event in Seattle. I highly recommend listening to the entire 12-minute talk. Scott...
View ArticleGraduate faster and spend less money with DIY Degree’s “Cost-Per-Credit”...
As I wrote in one of my earliest blog posts, too many students are focused on the cost of their entire degree rather than drilling down to the most meaningful number: the cost per credit. Just like the...
View ArticleThe barriers that keep you in college
I just read an article in The Atlantic which said (for the first time ever) a majority of unemployed people HAVE attended college. This appears to disprove the notion that college is important for...
View ArticleCase Study: How Vince earned his computer science degree in two years – for...
The number one question we get from students who are interested in joining our DIY Degree Program goes like this… “It’s great that Jay earned his degree by testing out, but does it actually work for...
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