InstantCert Now Offers ACE Reviewed Courses

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The reason DIY degree planning works is because you can use history and consistency to plan your credits.  This throws in an element of uncertainty that makes degree planning at TESU less predictable.  

This is exactly what worries me the most. In my most recent experience, a couple of months back an inquiry to Academic Advising assured some ACE/NCCRS evaluated courses would be accepted and transferable. In an attempt to have those courses preplanned (as had been done with other courses previously) academic advising refused, stating they would no longer preplan any ACE/NCCRS courses. But given that the courses in question were ACE and NCCRS evaluated, at least two courses were from an "approved provider" and there was assurance from academic advising that these courses would be equivalent to courses needed to complete the degree plan, I did not anticipate any issue. 

Unfortunately in the time that transpired between the initial inquiry and now, many including two courses from an approved provider apparently are no longer accepted by TESU. And some of the courses academic advising is now informing are eligible for credit courses (supposedly) are not from approved providers. As a result there appears to no longer be any clear cut way to discern which courses may or may not be received for credit by TESU going forward. 

I think the new (hopefully temporary) lack of obvious transparency in which alternative ACE/NCCRS provider courses are eligible for transfer to TESU is the most concerning to me. This new lack of predictability certainly has me considering whether completing a degree plan at TESU will continue to be possible, without the risk of potentially wasting time and money while whatever new policy they seem to be implementing gets sorted out. The idea of blindly taking courses that may or may not be acceptable by the time you complete and transfer them over is nerve wrecking to say the least. It is definitely a major and potentially unfortunate change to their historic policies imo.