I'm a new Excelsior enrollee. I'm afraid to walk into a local college bookstore and try to buy software with an ID that doesn't even have my name or ID number, let alone a picture, on it. I also note that legitimate online stores require either online validation (which Excelsior apparently doesn't do) or mailing in a copy of a student ID -- which, again, doesn't have anything on it that identifies me. The Excelsior online store doesn't sell software.

Has anyone successfully purchased student versions of software with an Excelsior ID?

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Kelly
Pursuing BA, History, at Excelsior College
Transfer credits from a previous life: 30
Excelsior Information Literacy: 1
CLEPs: 36 (Humanities, Natural Sciences, Western Civ I, Western Civ II, US History I, US History II, A&I Literature, Social Sciences & History, Educational Psychology)
70 credits so far!

I have not, but do you have children in school (any age)? If so, I believe there's an on-line option. I did it but don't recall the details at the moment.

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Michael

CLEP - ISCA 68, Sociology 72, Psych 73, A&I Lit 61, HG&D 65, Ed Psych 70, Marketing 72, Management 69, Macroeconomics 63, Microeconomics 67
DSST - Intro to Comp 66, MIS 61, Supervision 67, Counseling 58 - no study!, Personal Finance 67, Statistics 60, Criminal Justice 57, Ethics 58, Finance 63 (All A's at EC)
COC - 2007 (Community College) - Acctg I&II 10c, Work/Study 4c, Intro to Research (Info Lit req) 1c, Society and Rock & Roll 3c, Fund of Music 3c, Guitar I & II - 4c, Bass Guitar I - 2c
ECE - Ethics (A), HRM (B), Organizational Behavior (B) | CSU - Operations Mgmt. (A) | TECEP - Business Policy 80 (CR)

My Excelsior Degree Journey

Bachelor of Science in General Business, cum laude
Excelsior College

Fantastic question! I decided to scope it out and the first site i visted (campustech.com) says that we would have to e-mail or fax in a government id as well as a "Letter from teacher or school on accredited school letterhead verifying CURRENT enrollment, or Copy of CURRENT class schedule, or Copy of receipt showing payment for CURRENT semester." Sounds like a pain, but not unreasonable.

Now that I'm thinking about it, has anyone successfully obtained a really good discount on anything else with an Excelsior id?

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Chris
120 credits, 3.60 GPA, B.S. General Business, Excelsior College to be conferred 6/20/08

CLEP Accounting-71, Humanities-70, Marketing-78, Macro-70, Sociology-66, HG&D-72, Management-77, American Gov't-63, Business Law-73, Edu Psych-67, Biology-71; DSST MIS-66, Statistics-78, Principles of Finance-66, Money & Banking-65, Health-65, Business Law II-69, Environment-68, HRM-70; ECE Ethics-A, Org Behavior-B, Info Lit-P, Labor Relations-C, Ops Mgt-A, Business Strategy-B

YES!!!!

I purchased expensive Adobe graphics software at the academic price (70-80% off) with just a signed and scanned Excelsior ID. In my case, after placing my order, I merely attached the scanned document along with a copy of my current unofficial transcript (which has student ID # and Excelsior info on it) and sent it to the verification email address they provided. There was nothing more needed and they were able to overnight the product with no delay. The company I ordered from was Educational Software: Academic Discount Software, Student Discount Software, Childrens Educational Software, Educational Discount Software at CCV Software


Academic Policy CCV - Academic Qualifications at CCV Software


In the past I've ordered from both Academic Superstore and Campus Tech with my son's College I.D.

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Excelsior - BS Business


CLEP's: Macroeconomics 58, Microeconomics 51, Principles of Accounting 59, Intro to Marketing 71, Intro to Mgmt 70 Business Law 55, Humanities 61, Analyzing & Interpreting Literature 68, Social Sciences & History 62
DANTES: MIS 65, Intro to Business 68, Money & Banking 48 , Intro to Computing 61, Statistics 61, Ethics in America 67
ECE: Org. Behavior C, Ethics C
PENN F: Technical Math I C, Fin Mgmt. B, Info Lit A
TECEP: Ops Mgmt, Bus Policy

Thanks, Geezer! It's Adobe software I want, too -- Acrobat in my case. I've been slavering over it for years but have been too stingy to part with the $500. $150 or so, I can do.

Barcotta: No kids in school for me. If I still had 'em, I wouldn't be able to afford to resume my own education!

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Kelly
Pursuing BA, History, at Excelsior College
Transfer credits from a previous life: 30
Excelsior Information Literacy: 1
CLEPs: 36 (Humanities, Natural Sciences, Western Civ I, Western Civ II, US History I, US History II, A&I Literature, Social Sciences & History, Educational Psychology)
70 credits so far!