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12-12-2020, 06:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2020, 07:07 PM by nomaduser.)
Hi guys,
I know that the big three will easily accept study.com course credits.
But they won't give letter grades for transferred study.com courses on their transcript.
I'm curious if there's any online university that will give letter grades for transferred study.com courses??
Thanks,
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What are you hoping to accomplish with letter grades for SDC courses?
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(12-12-2020, 08:23 PM)MNomadic Wrote: What are you hoping to accomplish with letter grades for SDC courses?
I will try to transfer those SDC courses to other regionally accredited institution like CUNY.
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COSC used to give grades for SL and Sophia courses (and maybe Study.com, I can't remember), but I think they stopped that quite a while ago.
I've not heard of a school that brings Study.com courses in with grades.
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(12-12-2020, 08:27 PM)dfrecore Wrote: COSC used to give grades for SL and Sophia courses (and maybe Study.com, I can't remember), but I think they stopped that quite a while ago.
Wow.. so I missed that opportunity. If they give letter grades, those Study.com courses will be recognized as RA credits by other institutions.
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(12-12-2020, 08:29 PM)nomaduser Wrote: (12-12-2020, 08:27 PM)dfrecore Wrote: COSC used to give grades for SL and Sophia courses (and maybe Study.com, I can't remember), but I think they stopped that quite a while ago.
Wow.. so I missed that opportunity. If they give letter grades, those Study.com courses will be recognized as RA credits by other institutions.
Nope. They still showed that they were transfer credits, so any institution you wanted to take them to would need to see them on their own transcript (from ACE in this case).
Giving a grade does not magically make the credit RA.
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Having a letter grade on a transcript could potentially be useful for graduate programs that want letter grades in certain courses. But at least some of those schools might not accept ACE credits anyway.
Assuming they accept SDC courses, I think Brandman might transcript them with a letter grade. They require that you pass with at least 81.5% on transferred ACE courses. Not sure why they'd do that if they simply give you a pass/fail grade, but it's certainly possible that they don't bother to put the grade on your transcript at all.
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12-13-2020, 04:51 AM
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To be clear, nearly every college will want to see original transcripts for all earned credits regardless of where you earned them. This means that colleges will not accept Study.com credits from a TESU (or whatever school) transcript. However, when the destination college sees those credits listed on your transcript as transfer credits, they will ask for the original transcripts. It won't matter whether those courses earned grades or not since college transcripts clearly indicate which courses were taken directly from them and which ones were transferred in. You won't fool anyone by trying to launder ACE credits through another institution to turn them into RA credits.
If your target college accepts ACE credits already, then you might not have any issues unless they don't accept the specific courses you've taken.
If you're applying to a school that doesn't normally accept ACE credits, it is likely that they will ignore the ACE courses on your transcript as if you never took those courses. This means that they will not count for or against your GPA, but it also means that they cannot be used to meet entry requirements or prerequisites for courses. So if they accept you at all, it may be a provisional admittance with the requirement that you must re-take any required courses from them directly during your first few terms before you will be officially enrolled.
This is one of the reasons I recommend that anyone who wants to apply to grad school should plan ahead and aim for ~60 RA credits from their college when completing their bachelor's degree. If hitting 60 credits isn't realistic, you should make sure that your grad school entry requirements are met by RA courses. So, for example, if you're applying to a master's in CS with a bachelor's in CS, make sure your core CS courses are all RA courses to have the best chance of being admitted.
Of course, these recommendations really only matter if you're applying to a competitive-entry degree program. There are plenty of colleges that won't care where or how your credits were earned if you already have a valid RA bachelor's degree.
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Why can't a standard for all credits be created so there is no more confusion.
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(12-13-2020, 07:28 AM)Seagull Wrote: Why can't a standard for all credits be created so there is no more confusion.
Because there's no financial/business incentive to do so, and government-initiated action is an anathema to the American way.
In all seriousness, the current status quo benefits individual universities, as it allows them to retain most of the power and decision-making. The only way this would change is if universities unanimously agreed to relinquish that control to an external body, which I can't see happening.
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