Is my Excelsior admissions counselor wrong, or is Excelsior no longer "Big 3"?

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ROYISAGIRLWhere are you in your degree?

Another question for you, RoyIsAGirl. Are you doing Natural Sciences with no concentration of Natural Sciences with a Biology concentration? A different person from Excelsior admissions called me to talk be off the ledge, so now the college is looking more reasonable to me. But while I was talking to her (she seemed to know a lot, which was great), I forgot to ask about this part of the Bio concentration requirement, and now they are closed for the weekend: 

C. Select one course from at least three different areas. At least one course must be an upper-level laboratory course or include an upper-level laboratory as part of the course.

But I've looked through the Excelsior catalog and don't see any upper level labs available. I could take one somewhere else (thanks to the correction made by my new BFF at admissions), but an upper level lab is going to be expensive no matter where I take it, so it seemed weird they didn't offer any. Are they only offered during certain terms?

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If you apply and just want an eval, you pay for that with your application fee.  I doubt they will give you any info on Study.com or other ACE credits, which is why I wouldn't tell someone to enroll there until they have 100+cr to evaluate.

If you enroll, then you have to pay the enrollment fee of $1,095.  Find out what the refund policy is if you want to cancel.

Thanks for the good advice. The refund policies are pretty bleak—basically, the multi-source fee would be nonrefundable once I talk to an advisor. So if I talk to an advisor and find out Excelsior is out of reach financially due to picky transfer policies, I would be out of luck:

https://www.excelsior.edu/policy/fee-refunds/

So I think you are right. Amass cheap credits first, unless for some reason I decide that Excelsior is the best choice regardless of possible surprise costs.

I am feeling a little pressure to decide with the new cornerstone requirement coming in, but will try to ignore that ...