CSM Learn COSC

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I don't know how recent the agreement with COSC is, or what, exactly it entailed, but as of March or April, COSC emphatically, absolutely, without question would not accept CSMLearn to fulfill their quantitative skills requirement. I checked this with multiple people and did my best to escalate it, and I kept getting the same emphatic answer. They said they would honor CSMLearna and grant credit for it, just not to meet the math requirement.

It is one of several seemingly ridiculous, arbitrary policies COSC seems to have that got them eliminated from consideration when I was deciding where to attend.

If the policy has actually changed, that's fantastic news, and at the same time, it's frustrating because there was absolutely no reason why they could not accept it.

It's interesting to me how COSC is by far the smallest of the "Big 3" and it seems like it is constantly making choices that help to engineer itself to stay small.  And that's such a pity, because it seems like a great bunch of people from the conversations I've had.

On a somewhat related note, FWIW, Excelsior had a similar position, though it was even more arbitrary. They would grant credit for it if I had taken the class after October 2020, but since I took it before then, they wouldn't accept it. Nevermind the fact that the course had not changed one whit since I took it, the ACE approval had not changed, or anything else. They simply would not accept it because I took it before they signed the piece of paper with CSMLearn. One of CSMLearn's senior executives intervened and told them there was no difference and that still didin't fix it. And that, too, is part of the reason that TESU ended up with my tuition dollars instead of Excelsior.