Virginia University of Lynchburg Accreditation on Warning

[eLearner]

You are wrong. Virginia is not going to care. No school is obligated to accept evaluations only from NACES members. NACES is not the only valid oversight in that field, btw. Most schools use WES as the go-to evaluator, sure, but schools have the right to accept or reject whatever they want. Admission requirements have flexibility, as they should.

This is about a Virginia school accepting graduate credits that were evaluated at the bachelor level by a NACES-approved evaluator...

That is meaningless. A different evaluator deemed it as Master's level and the school accepted that. It's a done deal.

The optics are not good! This "different evaluator" does not hold NACES nor AICE credentialing/approval. It is like saying anyone can hang a shingle and set up a degree credentialing/evaluation business that is accredited by the Better Business Bureau and damn you if you don't accept my evaluation. This is not the intent of an "equivalent evaluator" as mentioned in the school catalog. I asked previously, are there any other Universities in the State of Virginia that accept academic evaluations from Validential? Otherwise, lets agree to disagree, or end the argument without reaching a shared conclusion.

I don't "agree to disagree" when the positions being offered by the other side are objectively invalid. Foreign Credential Evaluation is not regulated or overseen by government entities. This is not the same circumstance as accreditation. So for that reason alone, it doesn't matter what schools in what states have or haven't accepted Validential evaluations, but if you're that concerned with it you could always look into it on your own. 

Foreign Credential Evaluation is not a state/legal matter, at least not in this regard. These are individual school matters. If they were state/legal matters most of these evaluators wouldn't be able to survive, because then every school would only accept evaluations from the small handful that states give the ok to and the industry would be mostly dead outside of that. The industry outside of the NACES fold survives because there is open competition, and believe it or not some schools actually openly accept evaluations from non-NACES and non-AICE evaluators like Validential. Other schools don't openly say it, but they accept non-member evaluators as well. The industry is working fine as it is. The kicker is that the biggest and most well-known NACES evaluator and evaluator in general is WES and WES sucks in a number of ways. Bad customer service, poor response times, poor turnaround times, and a lot of ridiculous decisions.

On the school matter point, every school reserves the right to make an admission judgment that may or may not correspond with their written conditions. That literally happens all the time, and I can tell you that I got into a graduate program once some years back that I was definitely not eligible for based on the school's outlined requirements, but I challenged the admission requirements by letter in such an impressive fashion that the school admitted me. I then completely aced the program.

Honestly, you should consider just letting this go. It really is making something out of nothing.