Straighterline to Excelsior

[silvis]

The grading of SL courses is an interesting development. Just a heads up - a lot, if not all, associate degrees require a capstone course at EC now.

It is indeed! I was going to CLEP out of a few classes, but I am now considering the option of taking a few more SL classes. Having grades instead of pass/fail exams looks much better in a transcript.

Because I knew EC graded Penn Foster (ACE approved) courses for letter grades, but now Straighterline is great! I have around 45 credits with Straighterline and 60 credits with Penn Foster, I can try to get an associates from EC that can give me a GPA on mostly every credit. Than finish with a BA at TESC that will most likely just give me credit just for that new "capstone" course.

I would of chosen EC for my bachelors, however they didn't offer a major I was interested in and they didn't give me upper level credit for my lower level courses. Hence the reason I went with TESC for the bachelors. The GPA was a deciding factor as well but everyone kept telling me "if you apply to grad school your going to have to send transcripts from everywhere you attended". I was originally just going to get a BA in Social Sciences at TESC but I can add an associates maybe in business on my resume from EC that actually has letter grades throughout all the 60 credits.

I plan to apply to graduate school too, and receiving grades for transferred credit was the main factor that made me choose EC. I just thought that having 90% of classes with pass/fail grades at TESC would make me have to respond to too many questions. However, my problem is probably linked to the fact that I will apply to grad school in Europe, and pass/fail classes are really uncommon in some countries here.