general ed waived?

[a2jc4life]

Has anyone had any success getting general ed requirements waived?  I tested out of ENG 101 and 201 (by writing final papers).  I have the final papers, as well as rubric assessments/grades, but nobody wants to take them because they're test credits.  I would really rather not spend hours and hours writing a bunch more papers just for the sake of writing papers, if there's any way around it.  And I've completed an entire associates degree since "taking" those classes, including a plethora of papers: essays, research reviews, etc. so I think I've pretty solidly demonstrated that I can write.

Has anyone found an unconventional way around these requirements, and have any insight to share?

[davewill]

WGU will take your associates and consider the GenEds complete. Besides that, your best bet is to CLEP them. You will just have to write a few timed essays.

[a2jc4life]

I don't qualify for a full gen ed waiver, because my associates is an AAS, not an AS or AA. Liberty has a pretty generous transfer policy and has taken ALL of my transferred courses that were actual courses, so it's only my test credits that I need to "make up" -- and most of them are basically irrelevant to my degree, so it's only the two English classes and one other course. Not enough to make it worth finding another school, IMO, but if there's something else I can try with them, I may.

[dfrecore]

What is the school willing to take instead? I'm assuming they won't take TECEP's? How about SL? How about a single course higher level than the English Comp I & II? Some schools will waive lower level courses when you take a course above them (like if you pass Calculus, they assume that you're proficient in College Algebra).

[a2jc4life]

They won't take a TECEP, no. Nothing, apparently, that's an institution-specific credit-by-exam. They will take the CLEP (even the modular one with no essay), but only for ENG 101; the second class doesn't seem to have a CLEP equivalent (for them). I believe they will take anything ACE-recommended for a similar class. (They've accepted all my ACE credit so far, but not always as the "normal" things. Neither of my Shmoop literature classes transferred in as literature, for instance, the Business Ethics class that everyone else accepts for the ethics requirement came over as a Business class [I'm petitioning for that one, though], and even Personal Finance came over as Business.) So I'm fairly sure anything considered College/English Comp I & II would serve, but I'm not 100% positive.

That's a good question on the higher-level course. I don't know.

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I guess I should probably share how my classes DID transfer, in case someone else is looking for that information later.

Shmoop - Bible as Literature = BIBL 1xx (Biblical Studies)
Shmoop - Literature in the Media = CSTU 1xx (Culture Studies)
Study.com - Personal Finance = BUSI 223 (counts toward Business AOS)
Study.com - American Government = GOVT 220 (filled Social Sciences elective requirement)
SL - Introduction to Religion = ANTH 203 (filled Culture Studies elective requirement)
SL - IT Fundamentals = CSIS 1xx (Computer Science/Information Science, I think?)
SL - Introduction to Communications = COMS 101 (filled Communications elective requirement)
SL - Business Ethics = BUSI 1xx (counts toward Business AOS)
SL - Survey of World History = HIWD 1xx (filled information literacy elective requirement)
SL - Introduction to Sociology = SOCI 200

[quigongene]

DSST Principles of Advanced English Composition?

[a2jc4life]

Looks like that one is only equivalent to 101, too.

[bjcheung77]

Take the Study.com English Comp I & II. They're ACE recommended for credit and they're easier/faster than StraighterLine.