Ashworth (PCDI) MBA Program

dis.funk.sh.null · Dec 5, 2004

Thankyou Kit! That really cleared up a lot of my confusion!

So by that token, I think giong through the DETC route and then into an RA program is a much cheaper option!! But if that's the case, why haven't we seen people do something like this?

Originally posted by Kit

There was a list in a previous post to this thread:

There are surely others, I'm not aware of a complete list. All RA schools, all claim to accept completed DETC degrees.

Does that mean in every case? Probably not, there are no absolutes. It's always up to individual school, the particular program, and the GPA of the applying student. If an applicant's completed DETC degree had a 2.00 average it would likely lessen chances of full acceptance, a completed DETC degree with a 4.00 average would be considered differently.

Some schools might have limits on the amount of credits accepted, others accept completed degrees. If the DETC degree is not completed then the student would certainly be subjected to credit-by-credit evaluations. It's always up to the school but it's not as if there are no RA schools that accept completed DETC degrees. Many, if not most won't any DETC credits, but some will. Someone once posted an approximate ratio, something like 2/3 will not and 1/3 will. That's why it's wrong to assume that a DETC degree is always a dead-end, it's not. It certainly limits options but it's not useless. If a DETC school was the most accessible to any potential student than an RA program for whatever the reason, I would certainly encourage that person to go for it, rather than telling them not to bother at all just because their degree will be NA instead of RA.

As far as numerical limits on credit transfers, in many cases DETC schools tend to have stricter limitations than RA schools, whether any particular RA school accepts DETC credits or not. Some DETC schools even limit the amount of RA credits they will accept, but it's strictly a numerical limitation rather than a reflection on the quality of the RA credits.

Kit
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