Universities in CA that accept Ace (Study, SL, and Sophia) credits

[Coachr21]

Hey everyone, so I have students that want to do credits on straighterline / Sophia and take cleps to speed their bachelors up but still want to do like a year to a year and a half in person school after they graduate HS but are set on going to schools in Cali , with Nj/NY (our area) as a backup , now I’ve found like 4 options here but Cali hasn’t been the same luck, does anyone have any experience with this? I hope this the right part of the forum for this I wasn’t sure.

[Duneranger]

Hey everyone, so I have students that want to do credits on straighterline / Sophia and take cleps to speed their bachelors up but still want to do like a year to a year and a half in person school after they graduate HS but are set on going to schools in Cali , with Nj/NY (our area) as a backup , now I’ve found like 4 options here but Cali hasn’t been the same luck, does anyone have any experience with this? I hope this the right part of the forum for this I wasn’t sure.

TESU

Most big-name state schools don't, its pretty easy to find the ones that do on Sophia. A lot of schools do accept CLEP, but they limit the credits.

https://www.sophia.org/?utm_source=googl...xcQAvD_BwE

[Coachr21]

Hey everyone, so I have students that want to do credits on straighterline / Sophia and take cleps to speed their bachelors up but still want to do like a year to a year and a half in person school after they graduate HS but are set on going to schools in Cali , with Nj/NY (our area) as a backup , now I’ve found like 4 options here but Cali hasn’t been the same luck, does anyone have any experience with this? I hope this the right part of the forum for this I wasn’t sure.

TESU

Most big-name state schools don't, its pretty easy to find the ones that do on Sophia. A lot of schools do accept CLEP, but they limit the credits.

https://www.sophia.org/?utm_source=googl...xcQAvD_BwE

Thank you for the suggestion. TESU is fully online though isn’t it? I know Berkeley college in NY and Rowan in NJ take up to a certain amount from
The phone calls I made. But the student would like to
Go in California, so I want to see if it’s possible or it would
Be a waste of her time to take all those credits then have them be for nothing. I did suggest she could always do her undergrad here then do her masters in Cali if she was set but then any financial aid / scholarships she would’ve gotten would not be applicable I’m pretty sure.

[Duneranger]

Hey everyone, so I have students that want to do credits on straighterline / Sophia and take cleps to speed their bachelors up but still want to do like a year to a year and a half in person school after they graduate HS but are set on going to schools in Cali , with Nj/NY (our area) as a backup , now I’ve found like 4 options here but Cali hasn’t been the same luck, does anyone have any experience with this? I hope this the right part of the forum for this I wasn’t sure.

TESU

Most big-name state schools don't, its pretty easy to find the ones that do on Sophia. A lot of schools do accept CLEP, but they limit the credits.

https://www.sophia.org/?utm_source=googl...xcQAvD_BwE

Thank you for the suggestion. TESU is fully online though isn’t it? I know Berkeley college in NY and Rowan in NJ take up to a certain amount from
The phone calls I made. But the student would like to
Go in California, so I want to see if it’s possible or it would
Be a waste of her time to take all those credits then have them be for nothing. I did suggest she could always do her undergrad here then do her masters in Cali if she was set but then any financial aid / scholarships she would’ve gotten would not be applicable I’m pretty sure.

For the most part. I dont get what they want? Sounds like they want their cake and to eat it too with the "college experience". Most colleges that are Sophia/Study friendly are going to be for-profts or mostly online or like the ones you suggested.

Cali doesn't have any notable schools that take these credits en masse and have a decent in-person campus experience.

Can't have everything

[Jonathan Whatley]

You might look at schools that have both alt-credit-friendly online programs and residential campuses, and confirm whether their residential campus degrees are similarly alt-credit-friendly.

Southern New Hampshire University’s residential campus in Manchester, NH is about an hour drive to Boston.

Wilmington University’s residential campus is in Wilmington, DE, less than an hour to Philadelphia and both on the Northeast Corridor facilitating occasional getaways to New York City, etc. Joe Biden famously commuted from Wilmington to Washington by train when he was Senator.

Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA is has socially conservative campus rules and culture but a large student population with many activities within it. Regent University in Virginia Beach would be another online-plus-campus Christian university to check out. Or Saint Leo University, Catholic, in the Tampa Bay, FL area.

Alternatively, you could accept not getting ACE credit like Sophia and Study, but emphasize CLEP, and maybe DSST, and certainly transferable RA credit sources like ASU Universal Learner, community colleges, etc. That would increase the number of colleges you could work out plan at for roughly three academic years online, one academic year on-campus.

[Hotdogman1]

This is too vague, we would need more information to answer a question like this. What is the student's target schools? What GPA do they have? What do they want to do in the future? Bachelor's and Masters in what? What is their SAT/ACT scores? Do they understand what debt means and how payments would affect them after graduation?

This sounds like a situation where they should be considering dual enrollment over ACE credits. It seems like dual enrollment is available in both NY and NJ. If they don't have the grades for Dual enrollment, they should consider going to a local community college to "speed their bachelors up" then transfer to whatever school later. If they still want to go to California, tell them to consider applying to a California community college that has a transfer agreement with the target school. You would save a lot of money by getting instate tuition (by the time they complete the associates) and wouldn't have to live in the dorms.

I'd recommend CLEP over Sophia/Study just for general transfer purposes. You could get a general idea of what a school would accept via the clep website: https://clep.collegeboard.org/clep-colle...icy-search. They can also be taken for free via Modern States CLEP Vouchers. https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Modern_States

[Duneranger]

You might look at schools that have both alt-credit-friendly online programs and residential campuses, and confirm whether their residential campus degrees are similarly alt-credit-friendly.

Southern New Hampshire University’s residential campus in Manchester, NH is about an hour drive to Boston.

Wilmington University’s residential campus is in Wilmington, DE, less than an hour to Philadelphia and both on the Northeast Corridor facilitating occasional getaways to New York City, etc. Joe Biden famously commuted from Wilmington to Washington by train when he was Senator.

Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA is has socially conservative campus rules and culture but a large student population with many activities within it. Regent University in Virginia Beach would be another online-plus-campus Christian university to check out. Or Saint Leo University, Catholic, in the Tampa Bay, FL area.

Alternatively, you could accept not getting ACE credit like Sophia and Study, but emphasize CLEP, and maybe DSST, and certainly transferable RA credit sources like ASU Universal Learner, community colleges, etc. That would increase the number of colleges you could work out plan at for roughly three academic years online, one academic year on-campus.

They want Cali specifically....or NJ/NY

[Jonathan Whatley]

They want Cali specifically....or NJ/NY

They may have to sacrifice something, and Tampa Bay instead of California or Greater Boston instead of NYC are trades many would accept.

[Pikachu]

Only unis or community colleges?

I'm fairly sure some Cal State unis do accept ACE credits, including Sophia. They won't explicitly mention Sophia or Study.com though. Almost all accept CLEP.

See CSU East Bay, for example:
https://catalog.csueastbay.edu/content.p...nto=search

[Duneranger]

Only unis or community colleges?

I'm fairly sure some Cal State unis do accept ACE credits, including Sophia. They won't explicitly mention Sophia or Study.com though. Almost all accept CLEP.

See CSU East Bay, for example:
https://catalog.csueastbay.edu/content.p...nto=search

They don't. They say that, but in all actuality, they don't. That's why it's an incredibly vague excerpt. CLEP is usually readily accepted, but many places cap the credits, which may not be enough for 2.5 years