Good news guys, I just got a message from excelsior saying that they accepted the paper i submitted to them to wave the new research and writing requirement . It was fairly simple process once I got a straight answer. The hardest part as finding out excatly what they were looking for and who to send it to. I don't even think they really knew but they basically i just had to turn in a paper from an upper level course that where you used professional sources and cited them correctly and I had to email it to the liberal arts academic advising department. It took them about two days and then they told me I was waived and all I need now is to complete the one class I am in now and I am done!