TESU - RA & ACE Transfer Credit

[glancing7924]

I have 100+ credits from Sophia, but most aren't relevant to my Computer Science degree at TESU. It does cover my General Education though.

If I earn more relevant ACE credits, can I choose which 90 ACE credits count towards my degree?

Will TESU allow me to transfer additional ACE credits after my Sophia ones are in, and can I exclude the irrelevant ACE credits? I have 25 RA credits for electives and hope to only take 2 courses at TESU.

Has anyone experienced this, and can you confirm how it works?

Thank you.

[bjcheung77]

Yes! That's what I did when I started with StraighterLine, as they were one of the few that were ACE recommended for credit, I ended up with 104 or more credits with them alone. Study.com at the time was slightly cheaper than it is now, plus Sophia.org was $329/course!

Anyways, to answer your question, you only get 90 non RA credits at most added to your degree plan, the rest fall outside the degree and into the other courses field. It'll still be on your transcript though as transfer credits, so it's not lost, just not used in your degree.

Technically, you can't choose which class you want from ACE onto your degree plan, it goes like this, RA first as you need up to 30, then ACE/NCCRS that can go towards the degree, if the ACE/NCCRS classes don't fall into any requirement, it goes under the other field.

If there is a need to switch classes around, you can do so, thus, it's really a matter of what you have and what you need. For example, if you have two science classes that are ACE and you want to move two other science classes into that slot, there really isn't a need to swap them.

[glancing7924]

Great! It was really stressing me out. Thank you for the quick response. I appreciate it.

Yes! That's what I did when I started with StraighterLine, as they were one of the few that were ACE recommended for credit, I ended up with 104 or more credits with them alone.  Study.com at the time was slightly cheaper than it is now, plus Sophia.org was $329/course!  

Anyways, to answer your question, you only get 90 non RA credits at most added to your degree plan, the rest fall outside the degree and into the other courses field.  It'll still be on your transcript though as transfer credits, so it's not lost, just not used in your degree.

Technically, you can't choose which class you want from ACE onto your degree plan, it goes like this, RA first as you need up to 30, then ACE/NCCRS that can go towards the degree, if the ACE/NCCRS classes don't fall into any requirement, it goes under the other field.

If there is a need to switch classes around, you can do so, thus, it's really a matter of what you have and what you need.  For example, if you have two science classes that are ACE and you want to move two other science classes into that slot, there really isn't a need to swap them.

[glancing7924]

I'm pursuing a BA in Computer Science and have 25 RA credits, but they are all electives. I'm also interested in getting an ASNS in Mathematics, but since the ASNS only allows 3 electives, most of my RA credits wouldn’t count. Does this mean I can't pursue the ASNS without taking additional Math RA credits, which are more expensive? Or is there an exception since I am pursuing the BA?

Thank you in advanced for your help.

[jg_nuy]

The ACE/NCCRS credit limit for the associates is 45 credits, so 15 credits need to be RA, but not necessarily at TESU.

If you are doing the 15 credit term at TESU to avoid, some of your RA credits from either the CS AOS or from a couple of the easier courses would likely apply to your associates degree's AOS or general education, so that might address your concern. Difficult to tell without more detail about what classes you already have and what you are planning to take. The RA credits don't have to be Math credits per se.

[glancing7924]

The ACE/NCCRS credit limit for the associates is 45 credits, so 15 credits need to be RA, but not necessarily at TESU.

If you are doing the 15 credit term at TESU to avoid, some of your RA credits from either the CS AOS or from a couple of the easier courses would likely apply to your associates degree's AOS or general education, so that might address your concern. Difficult to tell without more detail about what classes you already have and what you are planning to take. The RA credits don't have to be Math credits per se.

Thank you for the idea. I will take Information Literacy, and 3 Additional Computer Science classes at TESU. The final 3 credits would be from my already obtained RA credits. That would meet the RA requirements for the associates.

[jg_nuy]

Example - the SOS-1100 class will carry over into both your bachelors and associates. If you did CIS-3510 for the CS degree, that would go into your Add'l AOS Elect section of the math degree. If you did ART-1000 (World of Art) and GOG-2300 (World Geography) as "easy" courses, they would fill in a couple of general education slots, while your capstone or some other RA elective credits would go into the Electives. That would bring you to 15 RA credits in the associates and you could transfer in the other 45 credits from ACE/NCCRS sources.

[LevelUP]

As part of your flat-rate 15 credit term, you could take these courses:

SOS-1100 (GE course)
Capstone (elective)
Introduction to Critical Reasoning (GE course)
Software Engineering (AOS course)

Then find one more course that will fit in the AS Math degree.  (you only need 15 RA credits for this degree)

[bjcheung77]

In other words, you're just getting 15 credits residency from TESU, using those for the Associates and repurposing them for the Bachelors...