Please share your Associate to Bachelor success story

[carasusu]

I'm giving a CLEP (CBE) presentation in a few weeks and would like to have a success story to share with the audience. I'm looking for someone who has earned an associate degree from COSC or TESC and then successfully transferred that degree to a bigger college for a Bachelor degree. I realize that every college is different and that people need to check with the EPC of their on their own. However, it would be nice to give an example of a bigger college who has accepted the associate degree as a block of credits and didn't pick and choose which of those 60 credits they would accept. If you have accomplished this, I would love to read where your degree was from and to where it transferred. Thanks for your help!

[EI2HCB]

I'm giving a CLEP (CBE) presentation in a few weeks and would like to have a success story to share with the audience. I'm looking for someone who has earned an associate degree from COSC or TESC and then successfully transferred that degree to a bigger college for a Bachelor degree. I realize that every college is different and that people need to check with the EPC of their on their own. However, it would be nice to give an example of a bigger college who has accepted the associate degree as a block of credits and didn't pick and choose which of those 60 credits they would accept. If you have accomplished this, I would love to read where your degree was from and to where it transferred. Thanks for your help!

Some people get their associates through COSC and TESC and realize that moving it into a BA/BS at the same college makes a lot of sense. Or Excelsior. Many people on here have their BA/BS and gone on to do Masters degrees and onwards. Local Community colleges usually give best value when it comes to cost per credit hour mine is around $91 and they also allow you to use CLEP and DSST. Any major college should have a webpage that will give their CLEP policy although most of them will limit the amount of CBE credits transferred in. Most students don't care enough to test out of more than a class or two. it is just easier to use their FAFSA money and go to class. Some people think it is easier to test out of a particular subject than take the class although many of them haven't actually taken a test in order to do so. The students on here are brilliant, dedicated and a friendly bunch most are seeking more than an Associates but it always is a good to set your own goals.

[carasusu]

I agree that moving into the BA/BS at TESC or COSC makes sense and is what I would do. Like I said, I'm giving a presentation and there are always people that want to know about the associate degree transferring to the big named college. I can and do direct people to find out the college's CLEP policy. But I'm looking for someone who has successfully transferred the associate degree as a whole, not credit by credit. In other words, "I have my AA, I'd like to get my BA from Ohio State. My AA transferred and I entered as a Junior and completed my BA."
I've always read that TESC and COSC are regionally accredited schools, so their degrees are fully transferable to another school. I'm looking for an example of this actually happening.

[sanantone]

That's going to be difficult to find here. Most people who attend the Big 3 are looking to finish their bachelor's degrees there. Normally, 2-year schools will have articulation agreements with 4-year schools. 4-year schools usually don't make articulation agreements with other 4-year schools unless there is an accreditation concern (national accreditation transferring to a regionally accredited school). Unless a school has a general policy of accepting all associate's degrees for block transfer e.g. Bellevue University, then they are going to pick and choose what they are going to accept. Some states might have laws that require all public schools within their state to accept all general education courses or associate's degrees from other public schools within their state. I don't know if New Jersey or Connecticut have laws like this, but very few people, if any, on this forum have attempted to transfer from TESC or COSC to a baccalaureate program at another New Jersey or Connecticut school.

[NAP]

I'd be very interested in hearing a good success story about this, too!

It's my understanding that it could be pretty tricky to try to transfer out of the Big 3 without losing a lot of credit. A few years ago, I started a thread on the topic. Gratefully, I was able to finish my BS at EC and continue to graduate school without needing to take this particular detour.

http://www.degreeforum.net/general-educa...chool.html

[cookderosa]

I agree that moving into the BA/BS at TESC or COSC makes sense and is what I would do. Like I said, I'm giving a presentation and there are always people that want to know about the associate degree transferring to the big named college. I can and do direct people to find out the college's CLEP policy. But I'm looking for someone who has successfully transferred the associate degree as a whole, not credit by credit. In other words, "I have my AA, I'd like to get my BA from Ohio State. My AA transferred and I entered as a Junior and completed my BA."
I've always read that TESC and COSC are regionally accredited schools, so their degrees are fully transferable to another school. I'm looking for an example of this actually happening.

I think you're taking what TESC does well and turning it around. There's no advantage to earning an AA at TESC. I'm sure you're hoping to demonstrate good credit laundering- using lots of exams with ACE credit to earn an AA and then onto a 4-year degree. Clearly each college will do its own thing, but I'm about 98% certain that any state school or university is NOT going to take TESC as a block unless that's their policy for all incoming AA degree holders. You will probably be able to find some for profits that take blocks. In my estimation, general rule here is going to dictate that those AAs get torn apart and individually evaluated. Heck, TESC doesn't even accept block transfer outside of written articulations.

Unfortunately, TESC isn't going to set up articulation agreements to other 4 year schools because they have no motivation to getting you TO another 4 year school, they want you to stay and graduate with them. Their articulations are going to get people INTO them, not out. (they are not a community college, so that style of transfer is uncommon).

Alllllll that being said, the composition of an AA earned at TESC will determine how successful someone is in transferring some or all of their credit into XYZ college.

[Ladyplf]

Thomas Edison has something called Comprehensive Statewide Transfer agreement, but it's only for other NJ state colleges.

Comprehensive Statewide Transfer Agreement

[cookderosa]

Thomas Edison has something called Comprehensive Statewide Transfer agreement, but it's only for other NJ state colleges.

Comprehensive Statewide Transfer Agreement

Also, that is only ACCEPTANCE into a program, not a guarantee of transfer credit, certainly not block transfer.

[Prloko]

Try contacting Utah State University. I know they had a policy that an AA (not AAS) would be accepted in block transfer and I was once considering transferring, but then I went ahead and did TESC.

[soliloquy]

I obtained mine at a CC. I already had 45 credits for a foreign language I had taken at DLIFLC and some military credit. Unfortunately, CC would take none of those (except some physical fitness credit). They said my foreign language wasn't in their course library so they couldn't give me credit for it (long story). Anyway, the Associate degree allows a maximum of 21 credit by exam so I took as many as they would permit me and just took all of the other classes required. I was able to finish it in 8 months from start to finish. After that, I transferred to COSC and used foreign language credit and a credential assessment. I took 4 more classes total at COSC and graduated. It felt great. All in all I went from no degree to a BS in about 18 months (thanks in large part to this forum). KayV, Cookderosa, Publius2K4, and Bricabrac were the most kind, patient, and helpful. There were others as well. I owe a lot to this forum. So none of that is really what you asked for but I took my COSC degree and and am now at Missouri State obtaining my MS in Project Management.