UMPI

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I read very good news that UMPI gonna offer a CS degree!
Also, just want to make sure that UMPI accepts credits from Sophia https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/UM...quivalents
and how is the grading from Sophia will appear on the UMPI transcript? Anyone can post how it will look like?

UMPI definitely accepts Sophia. If you send in your transcript via Parchment (instead of Credly), it includes your grade. https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...#pid323323

It is also important to note that the grade will not effect your GPA at UMPI and your official UMPI Transcript will state "T" versus a grade on the official degree GPA/Transcript.

My UMPI transcripts include the numeric grades from Sophia. The only grades included in my UMPI GPA were the 48 credits I completed at UMPI.

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Yeah. They're super ACE friendly. They're also very generous. If it has an ACE recommendation, UMPI will accept it at face value at the very least. 

All of the Sophia 1 credit courses transferred in as 3 credit courses for me!

My 1 credit Sophia courses transferred in as 1 credit not 3 credits. I did have a 1 credit and a 2 credit class that I transferred from another school that fulfilled 2 different GEC requirements. They still only gave me 1 or 2 credits - whatever the course was when I took it.

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Can you please show me how a UMPI transcript with Sophia courses (sent with Parchment) looks like? I'm considering if sending through Parchment or Credly would be more beneficial for me. From what I understood so far if you send through Credly you only get a Pass and ONLY the end date of a course appears. On the other hand, if you send through Parchment you get a letter grade, but BOTH start and end dates appear. That might look bad, completing a course in a day or two. Is this correct?


One more question. I want to pursue a BS in Computer Science at UMPI which isn't yet available. Should I apply for a different BS to get my Sophia courses transferred before they might change something? Can I switch to BSCS (when they start offering it) with credits already evaluated, or would I have to apply again? How long can I wait after being admitted before having to enroll in a semester?

I sent my transcripts for Sophia through Parchment. Credly wasn't a thing then. My transcripts show my numeric grades from Sophia. Transcripts at UMPI do not include any dates of the courses except the semester you completed the UMPI course. My official transcripts upon graduation just show the credits listed under each school/source. You don't get a letter grade on Parchment. Parchment sends the numeric grade from Sophia on the transcript. 

The computer science degree isn't going to be starting on YourPace soon. It's still a work in progress. The on campus program just began in January. When you apply to UMPI you're accepted pretty quickly and pretty much enrolled in the next term. You can defer the enrollment, but you won't be able to defer for years. We also don't know what courses will be required for the YourPace degree yet. The program can change between the campus and YourPace version.