Showing TESU grade equiv for CR

[Merlin]

TESU doesn't consider it a C, just as a credit. Showing a "grade equivalency" doesn't make any sense. What exactly are you trying to do?

This grad school is saying that I need to show that my TESU CR undergrad courses were actually a C equivalent (or better). In my opinion it is ridiculous because TESU gave me a degree. In my case, I took the specific prereq courses through CLEP and ALEKS (or I may be able to use a different course, like an AP exam credit).

Those courses are not TESU undergrad courses, they are ACE/CLEP alternative credit courses. When transferred in, TESU only considered them a checkbox towards your degree. Unless they were considered part of the program's core courses, then they would have been evaluated as CR but considered a 'C' for meeting graduation requirements. It does not mean that the courses were a 'C' equivalent or better, just that TESU didn't hold it against them that they were not graded when doing the degree audit.

Grad schools will often pick apart your undergrad degree and look at courses individually to see if they meet program entry requirements. They want to make sure you meet the entry requirements. If they don't accept ACE/CLEP credit as meeting those prerequisites, they will usually offer the option to take leveling courses or allow you to retake the courses from a graded credit source (CC, etc.)

If you manage to convince them to accept them because TESU did, then that is awesome. Good luck.

But I feel like this is why WGU will state that CR means at least a B. So that employers or grad schools who have these policies can read that one sentence on WGU's transcript and say that you checked their box. It helps their graduates avoid these situations.

The key difference here is that WGU only does that for courses that originated from them. They don't offer the same pledge for courses that are transferred into the school. Just like at TESU, grades don't matter for transfer courses as they just count as a course equivalency to meet degree requirements. Well, it matters if you didn't pass the course, but beyond that the grades don't matter.

I am unsure if TESU has some statement that suffices. Although, of course TESU is not going to give someone a CR when they only had a D equivalent in a course. That is the whole point of CLEP/AP giving scores and schools deciding what score gets credit, and the whole point of ACE having reviewed the ALEKS courses, etc. It's pretty standardized across schools (for CLEP/AP at least), but that doesn't mean this grad school knows about that or considers that.

It isn't TESU's policy you need to quote, it is ACE's policy. TESU's policies only apply to courses taken from TESU, just like WGU policies only apply to courses taken from WGU. I would be shocked if the grad school cares how a different college counts transfer credits a different degree program.