CCs that accepts out of country international students?

[Merlin]

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As mentioned above, I'm interested in the computer science degree program in HES so I'm hoping to be able to transfer in as many credits as I can and then do the rest with them. I read here that in COSC you can get letter grades from SL. I wonder if that will work for eventual transfer to a university.
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FYI, regardless of the concentration or field of study, every HES bachelor's degree is a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies. Any minor, concentration, or field of study (Computer Science in this case) is listed only on the transcript, not on the diploma itself. Though this may not matter depending on your goals. The HES degrees confuse some people, so I wanted to make sure you are aware it is a BALS degree, not a BACS degree.

For COSC, the way the letter grades thing works is that the courses you take at Straighterline (and Study.com I believe) can be transferred directly to COSC (rather than transfer via ACE). Courses transferred directly will reflect a letter grade which can be applied to your overall GPA from the school. This means when you graduate you will have a GPA based on more than just a handful of credits.

However, unless you graduate from COSC the GPA you earn won't matter since you cannot transfer courses from COSC to another university unless they were taken at COSC directly. Transcripts must always come directly from the school (or provider) that issued the credits. This is why each school always asks for all transcripts from any schools you've attended in the past.

So, for example, if you take a bunch of Straighterline courses and transfer them to COSC, and then transfer to HES, the Straighterline credits will not appear at all on the COSC transcript. You would have to send a transcript from ACE to HES to get credit for those courses; but, as far as I know HES does not accept ACE, so they will not transfer anyway. The same applies to Study.com or any other alternative credit provider.

If you want graded credits that can transfer to other schools, you'll need to take actual college courses from an RA school.