Oh No--My Precious Credits!!

Greetings DL friends,

I just received my Excelsior credit review back and to my astonishment there is no mention of any of my work in seminary. I would think, naturally, that any work in theology that I did would be listed and categorized as "religion" credit for the humanities, or general credit requirements.

Blimey! It's just not there! Believe me, the transcripts from both seminaries I attended were submitted, and I have actually spoken with a counselor since then about these courses from their DB~~~so they are definitely listed in my Exc. records somewhere.

I would call them, but you see, living on the west coast means we don't get home until Excelsior is no longer taking calls. Do they have some kind of thing against transferring graduate level credit for undergrad? All of my stuff is accredited.

Kind regards,

Chris

 

Well the problem is you majored in Hebrew not Greek!

See , English uses GreeK: exit, biology, archeology etc, not Hebrew. I mean, after my modest two years of Hebrew, my reading scores in English went down three years cause the Hebrew made me dyslexic! So sure, no one one's going to give you credits for something that causes learning disabilities! Tsk, tsk erus si oot dab!! :

 

surely Bill

Surely Bill...

there is nothing on earth as massochistic (sp?) as studying Hebrew. See, i don't even spell confidently anymore.

ylurt sruoy,

sirhC

 

LET ME MAKE QUESTION CLEAR

Has anyone ever tried to transfer graduate level work DOWN to one of the big three, Exc. COSC or TESC???

Does Exc. take it? TESC? I know that Exc takes grad level work towards their MLA up to 18 credits. But has anyone ever transferred down?

I need to know that "credits are credits" for Excelsior, even if they are graduate level, to have a sane weekend.

Chris

 

Re: LET ME MAKE QUESTION CLEAR

I'm pretty sure I remember reading that TESC has a policy of only applying up to 6 graduate credits toward an undergraduate degree. It seems pretty strange to me, I have no idea what the reasoning is behind that sort of policy. I don't know what Excelsior's policy might be, but shouldn't it be in the catalog (or whatever document has their policies)?

 

Yes

Yes, it should be in the catalog. When I talked to a representative on the phone he said "credits are credits" meaning that grad or undergrad didn't matter.

We'll see. It will be the difference for me between having only five CLEPS (and Excelsior tests) and five courses or having that plus about 30-35 extra credits in the humanities I have already done on the graduate level.

Chris

 

Hello, I am looking at page 25 of the current TESC catalog Liberal Arts which states "30 credits of graduate credit may be transferred to an undergraduate degree". I would have a copy of this in front of you if you talk to a TESC enrollment person. If you decide to enroll keep a running log of all conversations. Feel free to call them on errors and have decisions overturned. It can save you TIME and MONEY. Hille (GEt a copy of Program Planning Handbook - Liberal Arts Degree

 

Oops! Thanks for the correction, Hille. That'll teach me to post without taking 10 seconds to actually go look it up. As crazy as it seems, I do remember SOME school having that policy, but now I don't remember which school it was.

 

Thanks Hille

Thank you Hille. YOU ARE ALWAYS SO HELPFUL!!!!



I'm going to be very forthright about holding their feet to the fire. Here's the plan if this doesn't work: I'm thinking about trying to get portfolio credit @ TESC for those grad courses if Excelsior does not grant credit for them. I have no idea why Exc. wouldn't, but if they didn't I don't see how I could get them accepted at TESC and then transfer them to Excelsior. Excelsior would just look at them as coming from the same source and we would be back to the same problem again. Instead, if I could get porfolio credit for the graduate courses it would be reapplied to me as undergraduate work through TESC and credit awarded from their institution only, thus transferrable to Excelsior.

!!!

Chris

 

Re: Thanks Hille

Anything is worth a try, but I don't think Excelsior will accept the credits via portfolio if they won't accept them directly. You may have already mentioned it but has Excelsior told you why they won't accept them and cited written documentation for it? If not I think the most likely way to get them accepted is to ask, ask, and ask again. Goodluck.

 

for all who are interested...

Thank you all.

It was a tough wait this weekend. My credits will be accepted, if "must be" to finish my degree later.

Exc. likened my seminary work to the same thing as "chiropractic" work, professional credits for specific tasks. Seminary could have fooled me! Anyway, they try to minimize on such credits and not overdo them. So she says I'm correct that it could be applied if an emergency situation incurs to finish my degree, but that won't happen.

I was concerned because the section of the degree called "applied professional credits" isn't supposed to transfer over to other sections of the degree. In fact, one can transfer credits pretty much everywhere, and double up on them, at Exc (apparently~~this is the new story).

I have to take 30 new credits anyway. My advisor just said that we will redistribute them (double up) into the "holes" I thought would swallow my seminary credits. So, her statement to me, "it doesn't matter."

Chris