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credit by exam to letter grade conversion at Excelsior
#1
I've searched this site and Excelsior's site for the DSST to letter grade conversion without success. I would like to know just to satisfy my curiosity regardless of the answers to my other questions below.

The real reason I'm posting is I'm wondering if it would be helpful for graduate school admissions to spend the money for DSST letter grades at Excelsior.

How about submitting DSST and hopefully Torah scores that qualify for an A at Excelsior to help bring up the student's GPA? Not many graded courses have been taken, so each additional A would make a difference. Can you get credits for Excelsior without being a real degree seeking student and how much would it cost?
63 CLEP Sociology
75 CLEP U.S. History II
63 CLEP College Algebra
70 CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature
68 DSST Technical Writing
72 CLEP U.S. History I
77 CLEP College Mathematics
470 DSST Statistics
53 CLEP College Composition
73 CLEP Biology
54 CLEP Chemistry
77 CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications
#2
Excelsior only awarded letter grades for DSSTs with two-digit scores. I believe all of them have been refreshed to three-digit scores now. Excelsior has not come up with a new system of assigning grades to the refreshed DSSTs.
Graduate of Not VUL or ENEB
MS, MSS and Graduate Cert
AAS, AS, BA, and BS
CLEP
Intro Psych 70, US His I 64, Intro Soc 63, Intro Edu Psych 70, A&I Lit 64, Bio 68, Prin Man 69, Prin Mar 68
DSST
Life Dev Psych 62, Fund Coun 68, Intro Comp 469, Intro Astr 56, Env & Hum 70, HTYH 456, MIS 451, Prin Sup 453, HRM 62, Bus Eth 458
ALEKS
Int Alg, Coll Alg
TEEX
4 credits
TECEP
Fed Inc Tax, Sci of Nutr, Micro, Strat Man, Med Term, Pub Relations
CSU
Sys Analysis & Design, Programming, Cyber
SL
Intro to Comm, Microbio, Acc I
Uexcel
A&P
Davar
Macro, Intro to Fin, Man Acc
#3
The TESC capstone will be graded and if an A is achieved that will help the overall GPA. If the degree is being conferred at TESC they will only report the class taken at TESC as the final GPA. So the Grad school would have to then decide about adding the other courses for total GPA. As far as I remember even when Excelsior gave a grade for DSST they were only reviewed that way by Excelsior other colleges just gave a pass/fail. If the GPA is close you might consider sending DSST and CLEP B grade equivalency sheets if the test grades were good enough.Just a thought
Linda

Start by doing what is necessary: then do the possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible  St Francis of Assisi

Now a retired substitute Teacher in NY, & SC

AA Liberal Studies TESC '08
BA in Natural Science/Mathematics TESC Sept '10
AAS Environmental safety and Security Technology TESC  Dec '12


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