Seeking Advice for Quick Bachelor’s Completion in Computer Science

[bjcheung77]

Hmm, just by using GT as an example, you can probably get a BA/grad cert equivalency using ENEB and IEE, Spantran evaluations. You just then need to put together a well planned BACS/BSCS or similar degree, or get some extra Coursera certs and experience to make your application stronger. I wonder if that would work for GT, I know it should work for those Masters of Applied Computer Science and related subjects.

[animuscerebri]

Hi @Pikachu,
you can look this up on the forum: the "Big 3" have traditionally been TESU, Excelsior, and Charter Oak. However, nowadays I’d expand that to the "Big 5," since WGU and UMPI have become popular options over the past few years.
Let me address your core point: saying "I don’t think I’ve heard of a single university rejecting Scholaro" doesn’t mean that rejection has never occurred. We simply don’t know, because many students don’t report their experiences — positive or negative — with Scholaro (or any other evaluator) on this forum. That’s why I’d be grateful if some members could share their experiences transferring foreign credits evaluated by Scholaro at the Big 3/Big 5 universities. We’d all gain a better understanding of our options for evaluating foreign credentials.

I just skimmed the transcript evaluation policies of the Big 3: TESU, Excelsior, and Charter Oak don’t list Scholaro as an accepted provider. Among the Big 5, UMPI essentially defaults to WES, and only WGU may accept Scholaro via its AICES membership. Has any WGU student ever used Scholaro? I suspect not many, since WGU doesn’t admit international students (the group most likely to transfer foreign credits), but I could be wrong. I’d be happy to hear from any successful Scholaro customer.

I agree that WES is generally considered the "standard" foreign credentials evaluator (first‑mover advantage in a long‑standing market). That said, I’m not a fan of their service: contradictory phone statements, slow turn‑around, missed deadlines, and so forth, even though I did receive a reasonable amount of U.S. equivalent credits. My main motivation in using WES was to see if I can get a more favorable evaluation (i.e., upper‑level credit or more credits) compared to ACEI, since many forum members reported that ACEI tends to be strict in granting credit. It turned out that WES was pretty good in granting more credits.