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Bitter much?
The joke's on you. I know a number of CGs who never got a 4-yr degree and who do competent appraisal work. The number of CGs in my state increased by 5% in 2008 ahead of the AQB bumping the academic qualifications criteria for CGs. Given how much more complex the work I do is than what you do, their demonstrated performance only underscores my opinions about how little academic education it actually takes to become proficient at appraising SFRs.
Besides, it isn't the academic education that was the big barrier to becoming a CG; it's the ability to learn the material in the Income Capitalization course well enough to pass the testing for it; that course having a cumulative pass rate of about 55%. (including the retests). Even the ones who do pass the course don't always pass the state test, 'cause (in my state) that cumulative pass rate is also only 60%.