TESC suspends acceptance of FEMA

[Lemurian_Spirit]

Hey Nevados37,

I was originally planning to take all of my electives as FEMA courses, but once I started taking Straighterline courses I found the experience so pleasant that I was then going to take all of my electives as Straighterline courses, but got talked out of it by others on this forum. I needed 19 credits of electives. I decided to take three 3-credit Straighterline courses (thankfully) and 10 FEMAs. Then I got a FEMA transcript with CEUs that added up to 9.9 when I needed 10 credits, so just to be on the safe side before my Capstone started last month I decided to take one more FEMA, making 11 in all. As it turned out, I was told by a couple of different advisers that I didn't need that extra FEMA course, but I wasn't taking any chances.

TESC received both of my FEMA transcripts last month, so from what I can gather those credits should still be accepted. Like you, I intend to call TESC tomorrow (my, won't THEIR phone lines be jammed?), however, I suppose in the worst case scenario I will have to take four more Straighterline courses. What really bites about that is that Straighterline is moving toward having closed book finals for all their courses. I know that isn't the case for all of them yet, but if TESC won't give me credit I will need to wait until I am done with the Capstone course to take those extra courses, and by then there will probably be more courses with closed book finals that would have been open book had I taken them in January as I had originally planned. Reading the email from TESC again, it really does seem like they should honor those FEMA credits for me. I guess I will know more tomorrow.