Does Anyone Know What The Excelsior Diploma Looks Like

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by VONBATTEN, Dec 27, 2004.

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  1. VONBATTEN

    VONBATTEN New Member

    Good morning, does any one know what the Excelsior College Diploma looks like or does any one have a sample copy?
     
  2. BubbaGump

    BubbaGump New Member

    For what possible purpose?

    (no, I don't have a sample...and wouldn't provide one if I did)
     
  3. VONBATTEN

    VONBATTEN New Member

    I am currently enrolled with Excelsior College and I am just curious to see what the diploma looks like. I know what the old USNY Diploma looks like from various sample postings on this website but I could not find a posting with the new Excelsior Diploma.
     
  4. Buckwheat

    Buckwheat New Member

    I saw one about one month ago, at the top is their logo and then Excelisor college, then the standard stuff. It seem to be the standard size diploma ( 8-1/2x11 ?? I think) suitable for a 11x14 frame, the fellow who showed me is a contractor with the company I work for and ocassionally he gave me updates on his Excelisor progress. However on one day he walked up to me grinning from ear to ear. He handed me a folded piece of paper with about six creases while telling me "This is a copy". I opened it and noticed it had a faint, faint yellow background, which I remarked "Hey that's neat! Does your Diploma have that same color?" He remarked "Yes" I told him that seems to be unusual but I like it and I wish my old haunt had done the same!

    Personally I didnt see anything wrong with it but if your hoping on something heavily embellished you may be disappointed somewhat. But heck, graduation is soooooo anticlimactic that unless that piece of paper hit the floor when unfurled and had all kinds of fanciful writings and wax seals like a document from the baroque period; most everybody will feel a little let down!

    It looked like a wall hanger to me, if you jump through all the hoops, be proud of it!
    Best, Gavin
     
  5. alarmingidea

    alarmingidea New Member

    I've attached a fairly low-quality scan of my Excelsior diploma, with certain details removed to protect the guilty. :)

    I should add that it has a shiny gold seal, which nicely offsets the bargain-basement office paper that it's printed on.
     

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  6. VONBATTEN

    VONBATTEN New Member

    Thank you very much Buckwheat and alarmingidea....I am very grateful. It is not a bad looking diploma :)......Once again thank you.
     
  7. alarmingidea

    alarmingidea New Member

    You're quite welcome. Despite what I said about the cheap paper, I have mine framed, and it looks very nice. With all the hard work that goes into a degree, I can understand wanting a good-looking diploma when you graduate.
     
  8. lcgreen

    lcgreen New Member

    Given the opportunity to criticize, I would almost always take it!

    My Associate Degree diploma looks the same. I had hoped it would be a more modest version of the Bachelors version...with the schools name written in calligraphy, etc, etc. But, we get the ho-hum Arial font instead.

    By the way...this person that asked for a copy, could he have less than honorable intentions? Hmmmmmmmm?
     
  9. alarmingidea

    alarmingidea New Member

    I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. If someone wanted to forge a diploma, they could do it in a hundred different ways.

    There are plenty of legitimate reasons to want to see what a particular diploma looks like.
     
  10. BubbaGump

    BubbaGump New Member

    Name a couple, I don't get it.
     
  11. alarmingidea

    alarmingidea New Member

    Simple curiosity. An interest in academic history. A desire to see the diploma that you'll eventually get as a form of motivation. Or to see if it looks impressive enough, because you're taking a degree nontraditionally, and you have some insecurities. To confirm the ultimate wording of your degree. (In my experience, that last one is a lot harder to do than it seems.)

    I'm sure there are lots more reasons, none of them particularly shady.
     
  12. tcnixon

    tcnixon Active Member

    OT, but I was curious how you were able to wrestle a BS in linguistics out of Excelsior. I was not aware that they offered one.



    Tom Nixon
     
  13. ShotoJuku

    ShotoJuku New Member

    EC-USNY??

    Does the diploma still say "Member of USNY" these days??
     
  14. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    Re: EC-USNY??

    Yes.
     
  15. ShotoJuku

    ShotoJuku New Member

    Re: Re: EC-USNY??

    Thanks!!

    Now if they would only change the school name to old english script.
     
  16. ShotoJuku

    ShotoJuku New Member

    Any Changes Yet??

    Can any recent EC grads confirm if the diploma has changed yet? There was a push to have the diploma be written in "Old English" style text?

    Just curious as I will be receiving my diploma in around a month.
     
  17. lchemist

    lchemist New Member

    the diploma looks exactly like the one posted by Alarming idea in December 2004
     
  18. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member


    Very nice!


    Abner :)
     
  19. Maxwell_Smart

    Maxwell_Smart Active Member

    Now, all I have is a trade school diploma and a High School diploma, so I have no experience with University degrees, but... aren't these supposed to have your major course of study written on them? :confused:
     
  20. Jigamafloo

    Jigamafloo New Member

    Not necessarily - my Bellevue diploma simply says “Bachelor of Science”. It’s the transcript that counts, and that lists your major course of study.

    And for what it’s worth, I was very curious to see what my diploma would look like prior to graduation, with no ill intentions. It’s an affirmation of a lot of hard work, and nothing wrong with wanting to know what awaits you. These can be faked in a thousand ways; I doubt that anyone here needs to be worried about contributing to it by posting an example.

    Dave
     

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