Roadmap for New Excelsior College Students

[TMW2010]

Also, if you check out past forum notes, you will see things people have learned about. For example, I just learned in the past few days that if I take the CLEP statistics it is lower level (LL) but if I use ALEKS to take statistics, someone had it show up on their Excelsior transcript as upper level (UL).

If a school uses the ACE recommended guidelines, the three ALEKS Stats are counted as UL courses. Excelsior has done this in the past, but they won't always use ACE Guidelines (The refreshed DSSTs that now show as upper level when they prior were listed as lower level are a good example of this)

The Statistics credit through DSST & Straighterlines course are evaluated by ACE as lower level credits.

I'd advise anyone looking to get credit for Statistics (Intro, Business, or Behavioral Sciences) to just rock out in ALEKS for the easy (and inexpensive) UL credit.

TESC seems to no longer grant credit for taking more than one of the three stats courses (some members recounted getting credit for all three) because of the duplication. I can easily understand this because the 3 courses through ALEKS are pretty much the exact same except for the wording of the questions. (Business Statistics uses Business related word problems, and Behavior Sciences uses more science/medical related word problems.)