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transfering credits to a local university
#1
Hello,

question: I have a plan to take some college courses through straighline courses. I understand after completing these they can be transfered into any college or university part of the ACE network. I called (4) colleges and Universities in my area and part of the network and they told me they dont honor ACE credits. Now, can i transfer these into a straighline partner college that is part of a regional accreditation and then have them transfer these into the local college? is there a better way to do this? I noticed Excelsior is not accredited by the region but only with the higher learning... Can someone help me if I want these credits to be transfered into a local college like west palm State college or florida international University?

thanks
#2
daxurbina Wrote:Hello,

question: I have a plan to take some college courses through straighline courses. I understand after completing these they can be transfered into any college or university part of the ACE network. I called (4) colleges and Universities in my area and part of the network and they told me they dont honor ACE credits. Now, can i transfer these into a straighline partner college that is part of a regional accreditation and then have them transfer these into the local college? is there a better way to do this? I noticed Excelsior is not accredited by the region but only with the higher learning... Can someone help me if I want these credits to be transfered into a local college like west palm State college or florida international University?

thanks

Excelsior is accredited, check again. But, unfortunately what you are considering is credit laundering and is likely to NOT work. Your home college likely will not take credit via third party. Straighterline credits are limited and there are only a handful of schools that accept them. It's better to consider using CLEP. Does your home college accept CLEP or AP?
#3
What Jennifer said, and also check out Florida Gateway College, They are both a Straighterline partner and a State school in Florida. Transfer College Credits To Florida Gateway College - StraighterLine If nothing else you can likely complete an AA there using straighterline then transfer the AA to an upper level Florida school. I doubt FIU or West Palm will take straighterline direct.

Good Luck!
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#4
The Excelsior transcript will likely indicate those as incoming transfer credits. Just because Excelsior accepts them for their own programs does not mean they absorb and display them as if they were taken at the college. TESC lists term dates next to the courses taken through their college on the transcript. All others are blank, indicating they came from somewhere else. Excelsior's transcripts probably have some similar indication that the credits were transferred in, so schools accepting that transcript would request the original source before accepting them. The school you're attempting to transfer the credits to will probably then ask for the original source transcript, and when they see it is ACE, refuse to accept them if their transfer policies preclude them.

daxurbina Wrote:I noticed Excelsior is not accredited by the region but only with the higher learning... Can someone help me if I want these credits to be transfered into a local college like west palm State college or florida international University? thanks

The first sentence may have been a typo, but Excelsior is regionally-accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. You can take courses with them and transfer them virtually anywhere without much fuss. The Straighterline courses, however, will still be incoming transfer credits and display accordingly on the Excelsior transcript, flagging that for other schools.

cookderosa has the best suggestion if you're looking for a quick course. CLEP, DSST, and AP are much more widely accepted than ACE.
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#5
Daxurbina-

The only people at colleges that truly understand how credits will transfer are working in the transcripts/central records department. The academic advisors and people that answer the phones are pretty clueless.

I took Straighterline's Business Statistics course and through ACE transfered it to St. Petersburg College (Florida). They added it to my transcript as STA 2023. If your school is listed on the ACE website as being in the 'ACE credit network' I think you should be able to transfer a Straighterline course.
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#6
Gaz Wrote:Daxurbina-

The only people at colleges that truly understand how credits will transfer are working in the transcripts/central records department. The academic advisors and people that answer the phones are pretty clueless.

I took Straighterline's Business Statistics course and through ACE transfered it to St. Petersburg College (Florida). They added it to my transcript as STA 2023. If your school is listed on the ACE website as being in the 'ACE credit network' I think you should be able to transfer a Straighterline course.
This is pretty cool.
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