Advisor said no but transferred credits anyway...

[frankc]

So back in April, I got told by my advisor that Excelsior College wouldn't accept study.com PSY 106 abnormal psychology because it doesn't fulfill the major requirement. Here was my post back in April(https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...Psychology).

I sent it anyway because I finished it already, and they did not add the course(reject?) to my transcript. However, I just finished my other study.com courses and accidentally sent this course again, and this time they added it to my transcript and brought my total credits to 113...
Very confusing...I hope nothing bad will happen when I graduate in the Fall...

[bjcheung77]

Hopefully nothing will go wrong with this evaluation, having said that, essentially when you graduate they'll audit everything again to make sure you've hit all the boxes and requirements are fulfilled properly. Good luck! You're just 7 credits out and all 7 are Excelsior credits!

[ss20ts]

Something to keep in mind is that advisors don't decide what is acceptable when it comes to transferring credit. It's usually up to the Registrar's Office or a transfer office. In my experience, Excelsior's advisors aren't knowledgeable about much at all. The one I had couldn't even answer basic questions about the differences in the business bachelor's degrees. I got far more info on here!

[dfrecore]

I'm going to agree with ss20ts: the advisor doesn't get to decide, so if you send in a course and it's placed on your eval by the REGISTRAR, then that's who I would believe.

This is literally the only person at the school who understands the degrees and the transfer credits. This is the person with a whole lot of knowledge & power. This is the person you listen to.

Advisors, generally, not so much.

[studyingfortests]

One of the reasons I wasn't thrilled with Excelsior was the utter lack of *any* understanding of non traditional credit by their enrollment (sales) people coupledwith an utter unwillingness to get me to anyone competent.

But after sufficient badgering, and the comment that there's no way I'd even consider it unless I could get answers, they finally looped in someone highly competent in advising, who was lovely... and agreed with me after evaluating that TESU made more sense in my case.

I do suspect you just got one of the not-so-sharp ones.

[TheVilified]

One of the reasons I wasn't thrilled with Excelsior was the utter lack of *any* understanding of non traditional credit by their enrollment (sales) people coupled with  an utter unwillingness to get me to anyone competent.

But after sufficient badgering, and the comment that there's no way I'd even consider it unless I could get answers, they finally looped in someone highly competent in advising, who was lovely... and agreed with me after evaluating that TESU made more sense in my case.

I do suspect you just got one of the not-so-sharp ones.

My EC advisor has been pretty solid so far, but I also was coming in with a lot of xfer credits from traditional schools which I think is more the EC business model (based on their history).

Hopefully they keep it together till we can finish it off. and if they complete the change to university that is a plus as well.