I'm Gabe. I'm a veteran, and I earned my own Bachelor of Liberal Studies at the University of Maine at Presque Isle while working a full-time job. Now I build degree plans for working adults who already have credits scattered across schools, exams, and military training, and who want the shortest honest route to a finished degree.
Planning and advice only. Every plan is unofficial and ships with the steps to confirm it with your school before you spend on outside courses.
Colleges will happily enroll you and let you retake classes you already passed somewhere else. Almost nobody sits down with your actual transcripts and maps every credit against a degree before you spend money. That mapping is the whole service, and it changes the math more than most people expect:
All three figures come from one sample case, a fictional veteran student written up in full in the sample plan section below. Your numbers come from your own audit, and they will be different. The gap between the two paths is the normal pattern, not the exception.
Every college transcript you have, plus your JST or CCAF transcript if you served. Unofficial copies are fine for planning. Black out Social Security numbers first if you prefer.
Every credit placed against a target degree, what counts, what does not, and why. Then the best fit school for your credits, your schedule, and your budget, with the reasoning in writing.
Each remaining requirement matched to its cheapest legitimate source and sequenced around your real weekly hours. Confirm the plan with the school first, using the steps included, then start.
Three ways in, priced for working adults. Every package is planning and advice, delivered as one written document, and every plan includes the confirmation steps to run with the school before you buy a single outside course.
Marcus Delgado is a fictional student, invented to show exactly what a delivered plan looks like. He is 34, an Army veteran who served 6 years in logistics, works full time as a warehouse shift supervisor at about 45 hours a week, and can study 12 hours a week. He wants a business bachelor's for promotion eligibility, as fast and as cheap as possible.
His paper trail held 61 credits: 33 from a community college and 28 ACE-recommended credits on his Joint Services Transcript. The audit applied 54 of them to a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, its YourPace program, and gave a stated reason for each of the 7 that did not apply. Western Governors University was the runner-up and lost honestly: about 13 fewer of his credits landed there. The plan finished 36 credits cheaply before enrollment, then spent his paid sessions only on the 30 residency credits UMPI requires.
The savings do not come from a trick. Thirty-six credits were bought at subscription prices instead of session prices, and flat rate sessions were spent only on courses that had to be taken at the school. The full sample plan, including the course by course map and the veteran benefits section, is available on request. Ask for it in the contact form below and I will send it over.
The Standard and Premium packages include a plain language walkthrough of VA education benefits, written for your situation in general terms. It covers how the main programs differ (Post-9/11 GI Bill, Montgomery GI Bill, VR&E, Dependents' Educational Assistance, and the Fry Scholarship), how your benefit months interact with the pace of your degree plan and why sequencing matters, how school certification works and what your School Certifying Official does, and how rate of pursuit and enrollment intensity affect housing allowance in general terms. It ends with the official links so you can verify every word yourself and apply through the real channels.
The guardrails, stated plainly. The walkthrough is general educational information built only from public information published at va.gov. This is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. I do not decide, estimate, or influence anyone's eligibility or claim, and the walkthrough makes no determination about your own benefits. I am a veteran helping veterans read the public map. That is the whole claim.
No. Never, at any price, in any package. This service is planning and advice: I tell you what to take, where, and in what order, and you do the learning and earn the credit yourself. If that is what you are looking for, I am the wrong seller, and I will say so rather than take your money.
No plan from anyone outside the school is official, and you should not trust anyone who says otherwise. The school makes the final transfer decision, always. What you get is a plan built from the school's own published transfer policies, plus the exact confirmation steps to run before you spend on outside courses.
I am not with the VA. This service is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. I cannot decide, estimate, or influence your eligibility or any claim. The walkthrough in the Standard and Premium packages is general information built only from public va.gov sources, and it finishes with the official links so you can verify everything yourself.
That is the normal case here, not the exception. I work a full-time job myself, so I plan degrees for people who work full time. You tell me how many hours a week you can honestly study, and the sequence is built around that number, evenings and weekends included. Fewer hours means more terms, and the plan shows the graduation date your actual schedule produces.
Yes. I earned a Bachelor of Liberal Studies from the University of Maine at Presque Isle, with concentrations in history, business, and political science, while working a full-time job. That shapes how I screen every school on the list: I judge them by how they treat working adults, because I had to.
I read them to build your audit and your plan, and that is all. They are never shared, never used as samples, and never leave your order. You can black out your Social Security number and student ID before sending them, since I need neither one to plan a degree. Please never send login details, bank information, or any password.
That is the standard starting point here, and it is exactly where an audit pays for itself. Several schools I plan around have no time limit on general education transfer credit, and military training credit from a JST or CCAF transcript is real credit at these schools when it carries an ACE recommendation. I count it line by line rather than shrugging at it.
Most often the transfer friendly set: UMPI YourPace, Western Governors University, Thomas Edison State University, Excelsior University, Charter Oak State College, and Southern New Hampshire University. If you are already enrolled somewhere else, name your school and I will plan against its published degree requirements instead, and tell you honestly if that means a longer plan.
Then the audit matters even more, because the fastest degree is usually the one your existing credits are already closest to finishing. Tell me two or three fields you are choosing between, or your career goal, and the recommendation weighs which degree your credits complete soonest against the one you actually want. When they differ, I show you both finish lines and what each one costs.
It depends on three numbers: how many of your credits apply, how many alternative credits the target school will still let you bring in, and your honest weekly hours. As a rough shape only, a working adult with 50 to 60 applicable credits and 10 to 15 study hours a week commonly finishes in 9 to 18 months on a mapped plan. Your audit replaces that rough shape with your real number and a target graduation date.
Tell me where you stand and where you want to land. I read every message myself and usually reply the same day. If you want the full sample plan first, just say so in the message.
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