I talked to a adviser at EC about my CJ Program that I am enrolled in, (I AM STILL WAITING TO GET MY OFFICIAL EVAL), SO BEAR WITH ME ON THIS ONE, PLEASE

They have all of my 101 college transcripts , and than some. I was asking her what upper level units I needed and she said like 28 or 26, but the Plan itself on the website states only 15 hours UPPER LEVEL CREDIT REQ? I have 12 hours already banked , so I am over by 3 classes. I need 3 more to finish( CJ 324&326 Victimology or Criminology, SOC 465Social Research Methods, LA 494 Research&Writing). I have a Boatload of Arts&Science credit along with Natural Science.

So, I guess I will call Monday for Clarification On my program.

My understanding is that bachelor degrees at EC require 30 upper level credits total, 15 of which need to be in the major. Is it different depending on your major?


Edit: Assuming you are declaring a major, that is.

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Alix

Excelsior College, pursuing a B.S. in Psychology
Initial Transfer: 38.67 community college credits

Exams taken (39 credits):
May 2008: A&I Literature-78, General Anthropology-70 (A), Info Sys & Comp. Apps-73, American Government-60, Technical Writing-67 (A), Principles of Supervision-65 (A), Fundamentals of Counseling-68 (A), Drug & Alcohol Abuse-66 (A), Principles of Marketing-73
June 2008: Biology-73, MIS-58 (A)

Comm. college courses taken since enrolling (4 credits): Info Lit, Drawing & 2D design

Next up:
ECE Cultural Diversity
ECE Ethics
More in-person art classes

It took me 7 weeks to get my official evaluation back from EC. Has it been that long for you?

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Excelsior College: AAS in Tech Studies - Computer Technology - Complete February 2009
Remaining requirements:
6 hrs Nat. Sciences/Math
GPA: 4.0 (So Far So Good)
Passed so far since joining InstantCert:
CLEP
12L Spanish - 77/50, 6 L Freshman Comp. - 51/50, 3 L Info Sys & Comp App - 56/50, 3 L Intro Sociology - 61/50, 3 L Prin of Mngmt - 68/50, 3 L US History I - 52/50, 3 L US History II - 59/50
DSST
3 U Drug and Alcohol - 49/49 , 3 L Here's to Your Hlth - 56/48, 3 L Intro To Comp - 56/45, 3 L Prin of Sup - 51/46, 3 L Technical Writing 61/48
Central Texas College
3 L English Comp I "A"
1 L Academic Research "A" (Info Literacy Substitute)
Excelsior College:
3 L Biology- In Progress
3 L College Math- In Progress

Quote: There are no stupid questions, only stupid people. "Mr. Garrison"

I expected it to take 6-8 weeks, but they actually did my official evaluation in 2-3 weeks. I was surprised!

Of course, it's taking me a while to get my plan reviewed, but I just keep taking tests anyway...like a crazy fool.

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Alix

Excelsior College, pursuing a B.S. in Psychology
Initial Transfer: 38.67 community college credits

Exams taken (39 credits):
May 2008: A&I Literature-78, General Anthropology-70 (A), Info Sys & Comp. Apps-73, American Government-60, Technical Writing-67 (A), Principles of Supervision-65 (A), Fundamentals of Counseling-68 (A), Drug & Alcohol Abuse-66 (A), Principles of Marketing-73
June 2008: Biology-73, MIS-58 (A)

Comm. college courses taken since enrolling (4 credits): Info Lit, Drawing & 2D design

Next up:
ECE Cultural Diversity
ECE Ethics
More in-person art classes

See.. I thought it was 30 upper level credits also, across the board, but when I looked at the different criminal justice degrees compared to the other BS degrees , I noticed that the upper level units were different.

For a BS of Liberal Arts at EC they require 30 upper level units , here is the breakdown:

Upper Level A&S :21 U/L

Area of Focus : 6 U/L

Applied Professional/ Electives : 3 U/L

For the a BS/CJ LE Public Safety,AoJ Emphasis they state the following:

Upper Level A&S electives: 15 U/L

And another web page Pdf, they state the following: 15 Upper Level credit re for the major/core Req: CJ 324 or 326, also SOC 465, and LA 494 which is only (1) Unit of U/L
Which would come out to an additional 7 units for a total of 22 U/L, but again on another Pdf doc, they include the latter with the 15 units total?
So I am clueless on what I am required to have now,

But I have been waiting over 6 weeks for my eval, and she said that Penni is almost finished with it, as of today.

So, hopefully I will get an answer back soon on what I need upper level wise.

I'm awaiting my official eval as well from EC. I'd like to begin testing. How do you know which tests to study for or take? I'm assuming a bunch of Gen Ed courses?

In 2004 I was on vacation at Lake George, NY around the time of the "6th week" of the waiting period. EC was about an hour away so I went there to check in.

My eval wasn't even started!

So, for about the next hour I sat there in a lobby office with an advisor and WE did the eval together. I arrived home around a week later with my hand-written eval and the "official" eval came in the mail a few days later.

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Brian R. Fey Sr.
Psy.D - (Very Nearly and Insanely Enrolled)
M.S. - Psychology
B.S. - Criminal Justice
A.S. - Administrative Management

Shoto-Advice:
"EC"
"CCU"
"Prayer"
"A Pass is a Pass"
"Slow and Steady - Wins the Race"
“Sometimes The Easy Way Is Not Always The Best Way”
"Passing a Petersons = Conquering a CLEP -or- Defeating a DSST"
"The 5 R's of Study: Repetition - Re-Enforces - Recognition - Recall - Retention"

"Always be Ready to Release Your Mind & Incorporate the Advice of Others into Your Plans."

"Studying is much like Boiling Water, if it is not Heated Constantly it will Once Again Become Cold Water."

Other Sources of CLEP & DSST Study Material

REA Books, Comex Books, Pass Your Class Guides, Standard Deviants DVD's, Petersons Practice Exams, Dummies Books, Idiot's Guides .

I had a collection of courses from different community colleges to transfer, and I didn't know whether EC would take my computer programming courses because they were so old. (This was for liberal arts.) So, I came up with a conservative estimate on what they might transfer. I used the charts in the catalog for Liberal Arts (for the BS and BA requirements, on page 24 and 26, I think) to build a spreadsheet. I looked up what categories my transfer credits (minus the programming courses) probably fell into, and then I estimated what I needed.

Because I wasn't going to have more than 40 credits transferred, that still left a lot to take. Doing Arts & Science and Applied Professional electives gave me a lot to start with. I could have started on my major, but as I knew I'd want to take the Psychology GRE, I didn't do much with that.

Of course, I'm very OCD and so I manage ever single thing in an enormous Excel workbook (courses, costs, credits, exam possibilities) that would probably scare my advisor, so when it got close to the time when I needed to get some guidance, I created a simplified spreadsheet to send to him. That's what I'm now waiting on for review.

Oh, and as far as me getting my evaluation quickly...I don't know if it happened more quickly because there was an issue with my enrollment that I was pursuing, because they were getting a flood of CLEP/DSST transcripts on me, or the phase of the moon. Who knows? But right now it is graduation season, so I expect it to be slow.

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Alix

Excelsior College, pursuing a B.S. in Psychology
Initial Transfer: 38.67 community college credits

Exams taken (39 credits):
May 2008: A&I Literature-78, General Anthropology-70 (A), Info Sys & Comp. Apps-73, American Government-60, Technical Writing-67 (A), Principles of Supervision-65 (A), Fundamentals of Counseling-68 (A), Drug & Alcohol Abuse-66 (A), Principles of Marketing-73
June 2008: Biology-73, MIS-58 (A)

Comm. college courses taken since enrolling (4 credits): Info Lit, Drawing & 2D design

Next up:
ECE Cultural Diversity
ECE Ethics
More in-person art classes

This could be a clue as to why it's taking them so long, I only sent the 3 and it took them 6-weeks and a personal visit too!

__________________
Brian R. Fey Sr.
Psy.D - (Very Nearly and Insanely Enrolled)
M.S. - Psychology
B.S. - Criminal Justice
A.S. - Administrative Management

Shoto-Advice:
"EC"
"CCU"
"Prayer"
"A Pass is a Pass"
"Slow and Steady - Wins the Race"
“Sometimes The Easy Way Is Not Always The Best Way”
"Passing a Petersons = Conquering a CLEP -or- Defeating a DSST"
"The 5 R's of Study: Repetition - Re-Enforces - Recognition - Recall - Retention"

"Always be Ready to Release Your Mind & Incorporate the Advice of Others into Your Plans."

"Studying is much like Boiling Water, if it is not Heated Constantly it will Once Again Become Cold Water."

Other Sources of CLEP & DSST Study Material

REA Books, Comex Books, Pass Your Class Guides, Standard Deviants DVD's, Petersons Practice Exams, Dummies Books, Idiot's Guides .

I think mine is taking long due to the fact that I have over 7 different colleges on my transcripts.