Degree from Sophia Courses Alone?

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Has anyone seen a scenario where someone has transferred 99% (minus any capstone/cornerstone requirements, etc.) of an Associate's degree into the big 3 or another school?

With the breadth of Sophia's catalog right now, that would be a decent offering if someone could pull that off. There certainly are enough LL credits in their catalog.

You could definitely do this with TESU and a plain AA degree. The only course missing from Sophia is American Government and that can be had from InstantCert. However, the cost of this is going to be prohibitively high, around $5000, due to the cornerstone and the residency waiver. 

The cheapest option would be to get the Pierpont BOG AAS. This does require 12 RA credits but those can be had relatively inexpensively via TEL Learning ($800 total for 4 classes) and/or ASU EA ($1700 total for 4 classes). The requirements and process can be found here: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Pierpont_C%26TC

Charter Oak also requires 12 RA credits for their Associate's degrees. You would then pay around $2200 additional in tuition and fees to get your Associate's degree, bringing the cost up to at least $3k for a COSC AA or AS. Cheaper than TESU but definitely more costly than Pierpont.

A side question, if COSC won't take SL American Gov, will it take the Instant Cert one instead?

COSC does not require American Government at all, that's TESU.