Independent Distance Learning

[rebel100]

Rebel,

I believe you're from my area? Based on your description I think I know the college that your daughter is attending. If so, I've had several comical advisory sessions there myself. I fulfilled STA 2023 with SL Business Statistics on an ACE transcript. At the time SL did not offer the introductory course or I would have gone that route.

Highlighting on placement vs. CLEP. When I earned my AA degree at Coastline my placement scores met the math requirement for the degree. It was good news at the time; however, when I transferred to another school to study nursing I was not allowed to take Anatomy & Physiology because Intermediate Algebra is a prereq. I had nothing on my transcript to indicate math proficiency, so the course was closed to me until I could meet the math requirement. I met the requirement by taking another placement test. It could have gone bad. The irony is that despite having earned a nursing degree from this school if I went to an advisor today and said that I wanted to take A&P they would tell me that I do not qualify. My placement scores expired about the time I finished all my nursing prereqs. If I had just taken the College Algebra CLEP in 2003 when I started the first AA, the math box would have been forever checked.

Yep, you are close by. Your story sounds about right and reflects my experience with Florida CC's (now State Colleges)