Penn Foster ACE-Reviewed Courses a la carte?

Greetings.

Each of my two e-mails to Penn Foster have been auto-replied with no human interaction, my snail-mail (genuine paper) letter has gone unanswered, and my replies on the Penn Foster forum, which I stumbled upon, were hardly inspiring. I know not what combination of dodginess and ineptitude goes on at PF, but some sort certainly does. Still, I've heard rumors of Penn Foster's ACE reviewed classes being available cheaply & individually, and, since I'm poor, I thought I'd put common sense aside and make still further inquiries.

Questions:

Can anyone positively confirm or deny whether Penn Foster classes are available a la carte? If they are, exactly how much are they and do they include all study materials? If applicable, *exactly* who is the partially functional cog in the dysfunctional PF bureaucratic machine that is the point of contact for such arrangements, and how does one contact him?

Clearly, Penn Foster classes would have to be much cheaper then other offerings, or be available in subjects and/or formats not available elsewhere, to be worth considering. But, if they are, ...

Thanks in advance.


Cordially,
Richard Kanarek

 

I'm not sure about the cost, but you can take indidivudal Penn Foster classes. You need to call Penn Foster Workforce Development at (800)-233-0259 and they can answer all of your questions and get you set up.

 

They cost about $300 for a 3 credit course. You would need to open an account with ACE to send a transcript at https://www2.acenet.edu. In the same website, you can also see the courses that are accepted for credit recommendation.

 

I am working on three courses at penn foster a la carte. There are a lot of undergrads doing this to transfer to Thomas Edison or excelsior college. Some require priceless finals some don't. They are almost all open book too. Your proctor can be any

 

Hi Ryoder,

I am lookig into completing my degree at Excelsior Colloge.

I have a few classes to complete (2 options: Liberal Studies or Business.) Can I transfer Upper Division courses from Penn Foster to Excelsior?

 

Yes you can. However the selection is limited. I suggest you go for the Business option (it requires less upper level credit)
The PF classes that could be used as upper level electives (you need 12 for a general business degree) are:

Intermediate Accounting I
Intermediate Accounting II
Cost Accounting
Financial Management (you can take it however it is part of the core and wont go to the 12 upper level electives you need in business however it may work for BLS)
Sales Management (double check with them because I think the class is not being offered anymore)
Securities and Investments.

PF has an Undegrad Certificate in Accounting that includes all the upper level accounting classes and the financial and managerial accounting you need to satisfy the core requirements as well as other business classes you might also need. Check it out

Best wishes

 

At this price, wouldn't it make more sense to go through Clovis Community College or just take some CLEP/DSST exams?

 

In that case I suggest you look at state colleges in the state where you reside (NY?) to see if they offer reduced or no-fee tuition.

I agree

 

It would depend. The Penn Foster courses are correspondence and are made up of online tests and usually a final proctored exam. They are done at your own pace and you can take almost as long as you like. They definitely have their benefit to the right people.

 

These are the courses I need to complete for the General Business Degree.

Engishx111 - Written English Requirement
ECO 260 - Microeconomics
ACC 211 - Financial Accounting
ACC 212 - Managerial Accounting
BUS 230 - Intro to (US) Business Law
BUS 350 - Financal Management
BUS 425 - Production/Operations Management
BUS 323 or BUSx310 - Business Ethics
CAPSTONE (required to be completed at Excelsior)

 

Greetings.

Just a short note to say thanks for those replies that were directed towards me. Thanks also for the applicable POC at Penn Foster. It disgusts me even to have to consider associating myself with a bunch of boobs so slipshod that they can't manage a reply to a written inquiry, but, "fortunately," doing things that disgust me is hardly unfamiliar.

To those that have suggested, though not necessarily to me, that one might do well to consider taking classes from a proper RA college instead of Penn Foster, let's not forget that Penn Foster's courses are, at least (?), real correspondence courses. In a perfect world, one would not need to choose between an intuition run by clueless boobs that can't manage a simple inquiry from a prospective customer (student) and one that attempts to attract clueless students with bell-and-whistle laden "blackboard" (tm) software. In this less-than-perfect world, where one must make unpleasant choices, I'll go with paper.

Cordially,
Richard Kanarek

P.S. Unfortunately, Mr. Anderson, I am not sufficiently poor enough for the tact you suggest (though, with the help of my first house, that end is in sight ;-). Also, I am no longer in NYC. I am now one of the first New Yorker to move to Indiana without first crash landing here on a dicky plane. (Oh, if there were only some way I could sue myself for negligence and mismanagement.)

 

Straighterline offers accounting I, II and business comm. You can pay 100 for a month of access, 39 per course for a total of about $220 for these 3 courses.
I did exactly that. The tests are nonproctored open book and business comm has a few papers to write.
TESC is a partner school and I don't know about Exelsior but I bet they are too.
You can also do ALEKS intro to stats and business stats. Business stats is upper level and is basically the same as intro to stats.
ALEKS will cost you $20 for a month. I knocked out 3 classes on there in 2 months and could have done it all in one month.

Penn Foster is not the cheapest but its an invaluable source of credit for some of us trying to get a BSBA CIS from TESC due to the fact that they have a structured analysis and a systems design course that meets TESC's CIS core. I also took financial management. I could have taken the DSST finance but it is the hardest DSST out there and I would rather do at your own pace at home courses with no proctor if at all possible.