Sorry to rehash this topic but there's so many posts on the topic that I cannot find what I need to know:

Ok, it's well established and known that TESC accepts FEMA credits in the raw (directly from FEMA). It's also well known and established that EC accepts FEMA credits but only thru Frederick C.C. at $60 per credit.....

Question: If you get the FEMA courses onto your TESC transcript, and then have your transcript sent to EC... will EC accept the FEMA without going back thru F.C.C.?

Note that I am enrolled at TESC currently and have recently applied to EC - they have not done my evaluation yet. If it'll save me $60 per credit, I will have FEMAs sent to TESC first - THEN have TESC send my full transcript to EC (even though they are not needed for my TESC degree).

Anyone know if thgis should work?

Thank!

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- Some ridiculous Zach Braff movie, but what a cool quote!!

I'm the king of procrastination. I first submitted my app to TESC in 1993. THIS will be the year of my degree completion!

PASSED:
CLEP-Information Systems & Computer Applications: Scored 62; Nov 07
CLEP-Analyzing & Interpreting Literature: Scored 57; Feb 08
DANTES-Criminal Justice: Scored 54; Jan 08
DANTES-Fundamentals of College Algebra: Scored 47 (and 47 is the req'd pass score! ); Jan 08
DANTES-Drug & Alcohol Abuse: Scored 57; Feb 08
DANTES-Ethics in America: Scored 55; Feb 08
DANTES-Organizational Behavior: Score 54; Mar 08
DANTES-Technical Writing: Score 58; Mar 08

FELL SHORT OF A PASSING SCORE (I'll never say the 'F' word):
ECE-Organizational Behavior: Score D (but passed DANTES version 2 hours later! )

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Moderators, pls consider making this a sticky. I'm gonna get really detailed here:

All, this is great news for anyone who is planning on doing FEMA courses and having them sent to Excelsior via Frederick Community College (FCC)..... Don't do it! Excelsior accepts the FEMA credits when transcribed thru FCC and Clackamus Community College (CCC). We all know and talk about Frederick, but it didn't seem like anyone's tried CCC...

After a long conversation with Clackamus, I learned that they are $30 per course (not per credit!!) versus FCC's $60 per credit! Some of the FEMA courses are 2 credit courses which means $30 if done thru CCC and $120 if done thru FCC.

Here's how/what to do:
Don't bother going to Clackamas' main webpage - you'll never find what you need, but it's here if you want to see it. Go directly to their Criminal Justice/Emergency Management site and read that page (program introduction) fully.
- At the bottom of the page, click 'Program Overview' (a PDF file). They accept all the courses tagged with an 'F' in the first column. Note the EM numbers of the courses you took (or will take) - you will need those numbers on the registration form.
- Hit the 'back' button on your browser and then get the 'Emergency Management Registration Form' (also a PDF). Halfway down the page, the 6-digit course is the EM number of the course.

You should bank all your FEMA courses that you intend on completing ($30 per course, no additional fees). Once you are finished with all you'll do, then you pay only $5 to have a transcript sent to EC.

There's one additional step which I didn't quite understand fully... the woman said that FEMA will send u a certificate and you need to send the certificate on to them, I guess.

Anyway - the very helpful woman that I spoke to is named Diana Sheppard and she knows every nook & cranny of detail. She's at 503-657-6958, Ext. 2064

HOPE THIS SAVES A LOT OF PEOPLE A LOT OF MONEY!!!!

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You can't fail if you never give up
- Some ridiculous Zach Braff movie, but what a cool quote!!

I'm the king of procrastination. I first submitted my app to TESC in 1993. THIS will be the year of my degree completion!

PASSED:
CLEP-Information Systems & Computer Applications: Scored 62; Nov 07
CLEP-Analyzing & Interpreting Literature: Scored 57; Feb 08
DANTES-Criminal Justice: Scored 54; Jan 08
DANTES-Fundamentals of College Algebra: Scored 47 (and 47 is the req'd pass score! ); Jan 08
DANTES-Drug & Alcohol Abuse: Scored 57; Feb 08
DANTES-Ethics in America: Scored 55; Feb 08
DANTES-Organizational Behavior: Score 54; Mar 08
DANTES-Technical Writing: Score 58; Mar 08

FELL SHORT OF A PASSING SCORE (I'll never say the 'F' word):
ECE-Organizational Behavior: Score D (but passed DANTES version 2 hours later! )

Does Air Force TA cover the costs of transfering credits?

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Cleps Passed: English Comp w/essay, Freshman Comp, A & I Lit, Princ of Management, Humanities, US History 1 and US History 2

Dantes Passed: Astronomy, Supervision, Bus. Math, Intro to Bus, Human Resource Management, Ethics in America, Tech Writing, Intro to Computing, World Religions, Personal Finance, Intro to LE, Org Behavior, Environment & Humanity, Here's to your Health and Criminal Justice.

Failed: English Compw/o essay(47), MIS(39), Sociology (47) , Information Systems (38), Social Science and History(48)

That's great news!

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30hrs closer to BSBA-CIS & hopefully Acct too

One more cool thing about CCC: once you begin sending the FEMAs to them, they will establish an online 'account' for you. This will enable you to log in anytime to see how many you've done, which ones are still to be done, etc. Very cool!

__________________
You can't fail if you never give up
- Some ridiculous Zach Braff movie, but what a cool quote!!

I'm the king of procrastination. I first submitted my app to TESC in 1993. THIS will be the year of my degree completion!

PASSED:
CLEP-Information Systems & Computer Applications: Scored 62; Nov 07
CLEP-Analyzing & Interpreting Literature: Scored 57; Feb 08
DANTES-Criminal Justice: Scored 54; Jan 08
DANTES-Fundamentals of College Algebra: Scored 47 (and 47 is the req'd pass score! ); Jan 08
DANTES-Drug & Alcohol Abuse: Scored 57; Feb 08
DANTES-Ethics in America: Scored 55; Feb 08
DANTES-Organizational Behavior: Score 54; Mar 08
DANTES-Technical Writing: Score 58; Mar 08

FELL SHORT OF A PASSING SCORE (I'll never say the 'F' word):
ECE-Organizational Behavior: Score D (but passed DANTES version 2 hours later! )

THANK YOU! Everyone using this option has pocketed quite a bit thanks to you detailed help!

Just an FYI - Clackamas CC operates on the quarter credit hour system.

1 quarter hours credit = 0.67 semester hours credit
Source: conversion tables

- Tom

There is a forum VAJoe moderator by Michael Gates. He used the TESC
credit bank and ran into opposition. He fought himself to a senior admissions
officer and stated the case that FEMA credits are ACE approved and if
TESC translates them into valid credits like FCC or any other accredited
college Excelsior has no basis for discriminating against TESC. He emailed
me the other day and told me he just got his transcript and earned 120
credits towards a degree. Listed was the FEMA credits on a TESC transcript.
Just because FEMA courses are a large part of the FCC curriculm and the
charge more to credit bank them does not mean Excelsior can reject credits
from another college if they have the same value. I would consider consulting an attorney.