Please look at my degree progress. TESC instead of Excelsior!! ?? Please advise

[sanantone]

Another tricky thing - you will need 30 UL credits in Arts/Sciences, which will definitely be difficult to test out of. There are only 4 DSST's that Excelsior counts as UL. If you are planning on testing out, you'll have to use UExcel exams to get those UL courses, and they can be more expensive than DSST/CLEP's. Some are $95 but many are $345, and there's a $50 testing fee on top of the cost of the exam. Yikes!

Good luck with everything.

Most Uexcels are $95 with a $50 testing fee. Only a few are more expensive with a $60 testing fee.

Excelsior offers two evaluations the "preliminary" and the "official" evaluation. The preliminary just allows you to get a picture of where you credits will be applied; however, in the process they do evaluate all your credits. The "official" evaluation is done by the "department/school" that you're enrolled in. The official evaluation is the only evaluation that counts. Personally, my preliminary evaluation was a mess, but my official evaluation was awesome, as my official evaluation accepted all the credits that my preliminary evaluation denied. So at Excelsior your evaluation is done by two departments.

It's just hard to know where you stand when they give you a message on several of your courses that they will be further evaluated once you enroll. Maybe this doesn't happen to all people, but this is the message I received for some of my courses on my preliminary review.

Course Content for the following course/s will be reviewed in greater detail which will take place at the time of enrollment.