Am I understanding this correctly about Shmoop and TESU?

[Sparrowhawk]

I am trying to follow the threads about Shmoop credits not transferring to TESU, but we are still pretty new on this journey.  My son just completed his 21st credit through Shmoop last week, so I am a little unsettled about this news.  He had not applied to TESU yet as he just turned 18 and has not graduated high school yet (he will in 2 weeks), so they wouldn't let him.  I'm guessing all these credits are just lost.  He was mapping out his degree for TESU and had completed almost all his gen-ed type credits.  I'm just making sure that this is correct since he wasn't officially enrolled in TESU.  Kinda stinks because I had emailed them about some of these courses a few months ago and they said they would unofficially count.  

Any advice on where we should go from here?  Is it worth it to look into other schools?  He was going for his Professional Studies degree as he liked the mix of business with humanities type classes and that would help him the most in his future.  It doesn't seem like there are any other degrees like that at COSC and EC.  

Is it worth it to jump back on the Aleks courses or will TESU give up on these too?  He earned Intermediate Alg last summer and was halfway to Col. Alg before they didn't renew ACE last year.  I don't know whether he should do that if TESU might just not approve these either since they aren't proctored.  I am not sure how many more credits he can "lose" without just giving up.  Losing over half your earned credits in 1 day is rough, and I don't even know what is best anymore.