Transferring from a Big 3 to a state school

[cookderosa]

Re #4 - I'm from CA, and the reason her COSC AA doesn't meet IGETC/CSU requirements is because they don't do a block transfer. IGETC is for UC system schools, and they will not take any CLEP or ACE credits.  So those wouldn't come into the degree at all.  For the CSU system schools, requirements MAY be met with SOME CLEP, but they don't take ACE.  So while you'd be better off at a CSU school, you'd still be limited to CLEP exams only (no ACE/NCCRS or DSST), and even then, they don't take all of them (like English Comp is out).

Same for North Carolina, Illinois, Iowa, and South Carolina (the only states I know well). Block transfers are almost always in-state restricted, so the pieces of the ACE puzzle don't usually fit well into a block transfer unless you're going in through a CC that has an agreement with their state's unis and accepts ACE as a CC. I know Colorado (as a public uni system) will do this- but their participation in ACPE is the only basis for my suggestion. With the close of that program, they may *not* accept ACE credit as a state, that was a nice bridge that may no longer exist.

In short- if you want to use ACE credit, pick a partner school and be done. The game of trying to reconfigure ACE credit to fit into a non-ACE university is going to make a person crazy. Nevermind the variable that a college policy can change each year- so you're working with a lot of moving parts doing it this way, and frankly, I do believe that if there were members here that already knew of solutions, they'd have been shared in this FORUM already (not just this thread). What you're asking would be a golden road- so if you find it, I have 12,000 homeschool parents on Facebook that would like to hear about it too. So, please share.