Transferring Credit to Excelsior

[Rainydays12]

Yes, they will give you four credits. I transferred in a number of Empire credits.

The only problem with Empire is that they allow you to make up your own courses. You can create courses like, "The behavior of squirrels in urban communities", with your advisor, and assign a four credits-applied science value to it. (funny example, but possible) This sounded great to me in the past, but nobody knows how to evalutate them. Empire also took many months to send my transcript, again, because they have to find out the exact content of the homemade courses and write them up in the form of a transcript. If you have just taken regular courses there it should all be smooth.

I aced the Urban Squirrel class! J/K. I haven't started there yet. I am awaiting "approval" for entrance once they evaluate my transcripts, essay, etc. I didn't know you could invent classes so I had planned only to take what Excelsior doesn't offer for a Psych B.S.
I'm excited to get a few extra credits from the 4 credit ESC courses though. Free credits! Not that I will take that many, but every little bit helps.

[perrik]

perrik, were your Biology credits split up like that or were they treated as one course?

The exam shows on my status report as a big 8-credit Biology blob! The English test is listed as 6 credits under Written English.

Meanwhile, in my degree evaluation, there's a notation that the AP English will not count towards the major because it duplicates credit from the GRE. Something odd I noticed - EC gave me 12 LL and 15 UL credit for my GRE score, but the degree evaluation says that I need 3 more credits of LL in the major as well as the IIC course. That would take me to 33 credits required for the major, which has me quite confused. Right now I'm 99% certain that I'm going to shift to the BSLS or BALS to save the $850 I'd have to spend on that IIC class. (taking a Shakespeare exam would be cheaper, but then I'd have to spend the balance on therapy and sedatives )

[malcs]

I aced the Urban Squirrel class! J/K. I haven't started there yet. I am awaiting "approval" for entrance once they evaluate my transcripts, essay, etc. I didn't know you could invent classes so I had planned only to take what Excelsior doesn't offer for a Psych B.S.
I'm excited to get a few extra credits from the 4 credit ESC courses though. Free credits! Not that I will take that many, but every little bit helps.

I felt that Empire was really easy. I ended up with a few aloof mentors that didn't pay much attention to my work. I remember writting a lot of essays.

One good thing about empire is that they will hire an industry expert mentor for you if they don't have one on staff for the subject that you are taking.

[alissaroot]

The exam shows on my status report as a big 8-credit Biology blob! The English test is listed as 6 credits under Written English.

Meanwhile, in my degree evaluation, there's a notation that the AP English will not count towards the major because it duplicates credit from the GRE. Something odd I noticed - EC gave me 12 LL and 15 UL credit for my GRE score, but the degree evaluation says that I need 3 more credits of LL in the major as well as the IIC course. That would take me to 33 credits required for the major, which has me quite confused. Right now I'm 99% certain that I'm going to shift to the BSLS or BALS to save the $850 I'd have to spend on that IIC class. (taking a Shakespeare exam would be cheaper, but then I'd have to spend the balance on therapy and sedatives )

It sounds like our AP English credits were evaluated differently since they split mine between the WER and English Literature. It looks like two separate exams on my status report as well as on my final transcript. Oh, I see--it's because I took the English Literature & Composition version and you took the English Language and Composition version, nevermind!

Sorry to the OP for derailing your thread a bit, by the way! :o