mongoose65 Wrote:Great, after all the TESC bashing, NOW I finally read some good things! I originally went with EC just to save a few bucks (as a NY resident) but I find them becoming more and more rigid over what they will accept, transfer, etc (won't accept FEMA's, won't accept the new ACE UL DSST's, etc). Seems like they are getting money hungry to me which is what turned me off to school in the 1st place. Money and red tape. Anyway, enough of my venting. I'm thinking about TESC for a few reasons. It will cost me about $1000 more but I think I will save some of that in time and money because they will accept more credits (they take D's supposedly from my B&M transcript), they take FEMA's, they count CLEPS which means I can bang out the easier ones instead of busting my butt on UL's like Soviet Union and Money and Banking DSST's.
To me it looks like EC is setting the bar much higher than the others. Requiring upper level courses, and not taking FEMA or D grades sets them clearly apart from some of the schools that give distance learning a bad name. Not taking D grades is not such a bad thing since it will raise your average. EC has the same degree criteria that most brick and mortar schools have.
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