Problem Using Excelsior College Degree Outside United States

[Law-Dude]

Forgive my ignorance but does any other school in the US actually award grades for the DSST exams?

I'm a TESC alumna and TECEPs were also only P/F as well as challenge exams I've taken at my community college. I always thought Excelsior was the only school who applied letter grades to these exams. I've heard of schools using the numerical values as a measure to award the credit but never to actually issue a letter grade. I hope I'm wording this correctly? Anyway, in my mind it would actually make more sense that any transcript auditor would follow the norm rather than the exception.(shrugs)

I would think that if a regional accreditation body has approved a school's credit practices, those would be reflected in a transcript.

Regarding the UExcel exams, Canadian universities also usually have a challenge-for-credit option. They can have a Pass/Fail or letter grade system, and it varies by school and also by the faculty within the school or even by the course.

All of the Canadian university and college courses I've challenged so far, though, have had a letter grade. So, if you challenge the course in Canada, it will affect your GPA for the purpose of Canadian graduate school applications, but if you challenge it in the United States, it will not affect your GPA for the purpose of Canadian graduate school applications since the WES report will not count the letter grade.