Study.com Experience

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For some reason I had the false assumption that if it was on the COSC transfer list it was ACE. I have no idea where I got that notion.

I'm really not paying $40, because that's flawed logic on their part. Institutions want to handle credit themselves, not take some other school's word for it. If they wanted to charge to send out a transcript, fine. But this just isn't the way schools handle sources of credit. How much money would all of us on this forum have collectively saved if that's the way credit transfers worked? We would never have to pay $30 a pop for DSST, save $15 from ACE, and $20 from CLEP. Just bank all your credits and only ever have to pay one fee for the rest of your life!

Yeah right. That's so naive and thick-headed of them. I was all ready to start singing their praises after my painless first class experience, but this has definitely changed my mind. I'm definitely taking UExcel and DSST to finish off my degree. I was even willing to invest a little more time in their UL offerings and let them grade my papers, but not after this. Holding my credit hostage for $52? You, sir or madam, can go f*** yourself.

I would ask them to send the transcript directly to COSC for you, that's what NCCRS course providers are supposed to do - the whole going through EC is not supposed to be how it's done (and TESU for one will not accept an EC transcript for a STudy.com course, and I know for certain another school that I talked to won't either - directly from NCCRS course providers or nothing).

And, it's a bummer that Study.com went through both processes (ACE and NCCRS) instead of sticking with one, but they may have had a reason that we don't know.  But there are 19 courses that are NCCRS-only, I would avoid those until they get the transcript issue worked out.