Core complete from sophia credits?

[CocaCola]

My goal is to attend East Texas A&M University, complete the 42-credit Texas Core Curriculum, and then transfer to Texas A&M. ETAMU accepts Sophia Learning credits, evaluates them, and transcribes them as ETAMU course equivalents (even if noted under a Sophia pathway). If all 42 Texas Core requirements are satisfied and applied to the correct core areas, would ETAMU certify me as Texas Core Complete on my transcript, even if many of the credits originated from Sophia Learning?

[SpartacusPM]

Are you planning on getting a bachelors degree with ETAMU or just transferring in credits from Sophia and then trying to transfer those to Texas A&M?

If the prior, you will be good. If the latter, they likely won’t accept that since Texas A&M doesn’t accept Sophia credits as far as I know.

[bjcheung77]

Thus the answer is both a Yes and a No, Yes if you continue with ETAMU, no if you're trying to credit launder these Sophia.org (or any ACE/NCCRS credits) into Texas A&M institution. Each institution you want to go to, will have a record of where the classes are taken, even if they're on another transcript, it'll show as transferred credit, they'll know where it was transferred from.

[CocaCola]

Thus the answer is both a Yes and a No,  Yes if you continue with ETAMU, no if you're trying to credit launder these Sophia.org (or any ACE/NCCRS credits) into Texas A&M institution.  Each institution you want to go to, will have a record of where the classes are taken, even if they're on another transcript, it'll show as transferred credit, they'll know where it was transferred from.

I understand the term “credit laundering,” but this situation would be using Texas transfer policy as intended, not laundering credit. Texas already allows this with CLEP and other exams that some institutions accept and others do not. Once a Texas public university evaluates and applies credit toward the Texas Core, the state mandate protects core completion, regardless of the original source.

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Are you planning on getting a bachelors degree with ETAMU or just transferring in credits from Sophia and then trying to transfer those to Texas A&M?

If the prior, you will be good. If the latter, they likely won’t accept that since Texas A&M doesn’t accept Sophia credits as far as I know.

Just transferring. I have some clep credits already. I would be using the texas state mandate which would require a&m to accept 42 credits of clep and sophia if I were to be core completed from ETAMU.

[bjcheung77]

Basically, if it works for you and the institution does allow it (or the state mandate), great. The only thing is, you wouldn't be able to fulfill all the general education requirements for the core, as an example, neither Sophia.org or Study.com has Texas Government, the 3 credits missing in the core. You can take more than the 42 credits, as there are electives that need to come in anyways.

Do the max transfer of credits transferable, be it 42 or 60, or whatever that number is, you won't always hit that number though, so be prepared for the extra community college or completion through ETAMU then transfer to which ever institution you want... I would recommend finishing the degree at ETAMU and then pursue a Masters at the Texas A&M institution of your choice.