Posts: 31
Threads: 7
Likes Received: 0 in 0 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: Mar 2009
[COLOR="Blue"]Hello guys,
I am very interested in hearing about what kind of feedback you have received when you have applied to graduate school pro9grams after graduating from TESC. What I mean is, how was your degree received? Any GPA issues for those who tested out 100% or close to it? Anyone question you about your GPA and the amount of courses comprising it (if for example, you only have one or a few graded classes from TESC in all).
Please post so that those of us planning on continuing on to grad school (Law School for me starting in January 2010!!!) can get an idea of what to expect.[/COLOR] 
[SIZE="2"] [SIZE="4"][COLOR="Blue"]BA Foreign Language (Spanish) or BA Liberal Studies
Thomas Edison State College
Expected Graduation 2009[/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE="1"]_____________________________________________________________________
[COLOR="Lime"]Completed:[/SIZE]
[SIZE="1"]27 CC Credits
45 FEMA Credits[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Red"]
Straighterline courses:
Accounting I - taking
Accounting II - taking
Economics I - taking
Economics II - taking[/COLOR]
ALEKS:
[COLOR="Lime"]Beginner Algebra
Intermediate Algebra
College Algebra
Statistics for Behavioral Science
Trigonometry
College Algebra with Trigonometry
Business Stats
Intro to Stats
PreCalc [/COLOR]
[COLOR="Blue"]CLEPs:
English Comp w/ Essay- waiting for results
Spanish Language - Passed/100%!![/COLOR]
[COLOR="Red"]Analyzing & Inter. Lit.- taking 7/2009
Social Sci. & History- taking 7/2009[/COLOR]
DSST Exams:
Hist. of Vietnam War- taking 7/2009 [/SIZE]
![[-]](https://degreeforum.net/mybb/images/collapse.png)
•
Posts: 10,296
Threads: 353
Likes Received: 62 in 23 posts
Likes Given: 1,406
Joined: Mar 2007
Hello guys,
I am very interested in hearing about what kind of feedback you have received when you have applied to graduate school pro9grams after graduating from TESC. What I mean is, how was your degree received?
I rec'd acceptance letters to the colleges I applied to, no feedback or comments of any kind from any of them.
Any GPA issues for those who tested out 100% or close to it? N/A I tested out of my gen eds only.
Anyone question you about your GPA and the amount of courses comprising it (if for example, you only have one or a few graded classes from TESC in all). No. And, I technically didn't have enough [B]graded credits for 1 of the programs I applied to (MS Hospitality, University of Illinois) but was accepted anyway. My GPA is 3.875, and I think I had 30 graded credits through TESC, and 6 graded credits from 2ea other colleges. I also included my transcript for my associate degree, and that had graded credits, but that school was NA at the time, so it didn't "count" for credit. I know this isn't a ton of help, but just tossing it out there. Law school is a whole 'nother story, so I hope you can get some relevant help!![/B]
Please post so that those of us planning on continuing on to grad school (Law School for me starting in January 2010!!!) can get an idea of what to expect.
•
Posts: 31
Threads: 7
Likes Received: 0 in 0 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: Mar 2009
C'mon! I didn't know this forum was full of so many underachievers...J/K:p Nobody's going to grad school?
[SIZE="5"][B][U]"Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?"[/SIZE][/B][/U]
[SIZE="2"] [SIZE="4"][COLOR="Blue"]BA Foreign Language (Spanish) or BA Liberal Studies
Thomas Edison State College
Expected Graduation 2009[/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE="1"]_____________________________________________________________________
[COLOR="Lime"]Completed:[/SIZE]
[SIZE="1"]27 CC Credits
45 FEMA Credits[/COLOR]
[COLOR="Red"]
Straighterline courses:
Accounting I - taking
Accounting II - taking
Economics I - taking
Economics II - taking[/COLOR]
ALEKS:
[COLOR="Lime"]Beginner Algebra
Intermediate Algebra
College Algebra
Statistics for Behavioral Science
Trigonometry
College Algebra with Trigonometry
Business Stats
Intro to Stats
PreCalc [/COLOR]
[COLOR="Blue"]CLEPs:
English Comp w/ Essay- waiting for results
Spanish Language - Passed/100%!![/COLOR]
[COLOR="Red"]Analyzing & Inter. Lit.- taking 7/2009
Social Sci. & History- taking 7/2009[/COLOR]
DSST Exams:
Hist. of Vietnam War- taking 7/2009 [/SIZE]
•
Posts: 322
Threads: 9
Likes Received: 1 in 1 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: Aug 2006
What I mean is, how was your degree received?
UIS was the only school I applied to, had no issues whatsoever.
Any GPA issues for those who tested out 100% or close to it?
I had completed 100+ classroom hours with a 3.3+ GPA, so N/A.
Anyone question you about your GPA and the amount of courses comprising it (if for example, you only have one or a few graded classes from TESC in all).
Not at all.
I m edumakated thanx to distunce lerning.
MEd, Texas A&M University, 2018
MBA, University of North Dakota, 2014
MS, University of Illinois Springfield, 2010
BSBA, Thomas Edison State University, 2008
AS / AAS, Tidewater Community College, 2004
•
Posts: 229
Threads: 8
Likes Received: 1 in 1 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: Jan 2009
I'm also curious to know if anyone on here who tested out of their degree (or came close) has gone on to grad school and what their experience was. 
~Brittany
From 0 to 120 credits in ten months and seven days because of CollegePlus! and InstantCert!!!
AHHHH!!!!!!!! I DID IT!!!!!!!! Graduation, here I come!
"The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save." ~Zephaniah 3:17
•
Posts: 393
Threads: 55
Likes Received: 1 in 1 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: May 2008
I completely tested out (TESC) and I'm happy to say that I will be starting my MA on 9/10. Since I didn't have a GPA, I was very pessimistic about my chances of being accepted to my school of choice, which has a reputation for being "academically challenging".
The admissions department did contact me with questions about my (missing) GPA, so I explained that I had used credit by exam to obtain all 120 credits, and that TESC only gave letter grades for classes taken directly from them. I also emailed them a spreadsheet that I had put together that calculated my GPA. To determine my letter grades for each exam, I used materials from Excelsior (mainly), and CLEP and DSST.
Also, I had taken 5 ECEs, so I sent a transcript (with my application) from Excelsior as well as TESC, because the Excelsior transcript does show letter grades on it.
BA Social Sciences TESC 2009
Humanities 64 | Intro Sociology 74 | Intro Psychology 74 | College Mathematics 60 | H.G. & Dev. 66
A&I Literature 65 | Educational Psychology 71 | American Government 67 | US History I 67 | US History II 72
Social Sciences & History 65 | English Comp 63
DSST
Civil War 61 | Substance Abuse 463 | Intro Computing 465 | Technical Writing 66 | Anthropology 66 | Prin. of Supervision 62
Enviro & Humanity 68 | Org Behavior 67 | Astronomy 60 | Ethics 467
ECE
World Population A | Research Methods in Psychology A | Adulthood & Aging A | Gerontology A | UExcel Political Science B
[SIZE="4"][COLOR="Blue"]Read My Story[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE="3"] Tested out of 120 credits in 11 months. Started with [COLOR="Blue"]0[/COLOR] credits on April 20, 2008 - Finished on March 18th 2009
[/SIZE][COLOR="Navy"][COLOR="Navy"]
[SIZE="3"][COLOR="#800080"][COLOR="#4B0082"]If you've been helped by someone on this forum then help someone on this forum.[/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR]
•
Posts: 246
Threads: 30
Likes Received: 0 in 0 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: Mar 2008
thatbrian Wrote:I completely tested out (TESC) and I'm happy to say that I will be starting my MA on 9/10. Since I didn't have a GPA, I was very pessimistic about my chances of being accepted to my school of choice, which has a reputation for being "academically challenging".
The admissions department did contact me with questions about my (missing) GPA, so I explained that I had used credit by exam to obtain all 120 credits, and that TESC only gave letter grades for classes taken directly from them. I also emailed them a spreadsheet that I had put together that calculated my GPA. To determine my letter grades for each exam, I used materials from Excelsior (mainly), and CLEP and DSST.
Also, I had taken 5 ECEs, so I sent a transcript (with my application) from Excelsior as well as TESC, because the Excelsior transcript does show letter grades on it.
And that did it? That got you in? I remember you asking what the GPA would be for this or that test awhile ago. This is very good to know. Just one more topic of conversation for the nay-sayers. If you don't mind me asking, are your classes going to be online?
I will keep a track of my son's GPA this way too. He's got a 4.0 so far, I think. So when he takes the ECEs, we can still use the grades because its on a transcript from EC. Cool! 
For me, I would love to just test out at TESC....they seem like the way to go for me since they do offer that Humanities degree which kinda sounds 'artsy'. I would rather have an art degree, but there's no way of testing outa that one!
[COLOR="Teal"][SIZE="4"]Margo
[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE="2"][B][B]"By endurance, we conquer"[/B][/B][/SIZE] [SIZE="2"] [SIZE="1"] ~ Sir Ernest Shackleton[/SIZE][/SIZE]
__________________________________
[SIZE="1"]College credits from my previous life:
Western Civ. I, Intro to Psych, Drawing,
U.S. Hist. I, Amer. Gov't, and Composition
for a total of 18
CLEP done through 2010:
U.S. History II (66)
Analyzing & Interpreting Lit (70)
Introduction to Sociology (71)
Social Sciences & History (70)
College Mathematics (57) :o
Hoped for end result before arthritis sets in:
BA in Art, Liberal Studies, or Humanities[/SIZE]
•
Posts: 393
Threads: 55
Likes Received: 1 in 1 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: May 2008
No, it is a B&M school.
LatinTea Wrote:If you don't mind me asking, are your classes going to be online?
BA Social Sciences TESC 2009
Humanities 64 | Intro Sociology 74 | Intro Psychology 74 | College Mathematics 60 | H.G. & Dev. 66
A&I Literature 65 | Educational Psychology 71 | American Government 67 | US History I 67 | US History II 72
Social Sciences & History 65 | English Comp 63
DSST
Civil War 61 | Substance Abuse 463 | Intro Computing 465 | Technical Writing 66 | Anthropology 66 | Prin. of Supervision 62
Enviro & Humanity 68 | Org Behavior 67 | Astronomy 60 | Ethics 467
ECE
World Population A | Research Methods in Psychology A | Adulthood & Aging A | Gerontology A | UExcel Political Science B
[SIZE="4"][COLOR="Blue"]Read My Story[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE="3"] Tested out of 120 credits in 11 months. Started with [COLOR="Blue"]0[/COLOR] credits on April 20, 2008 - Finished on March 18th 2009
[/SIZE][COLOR="Navy"][COLOR="Navy"]
[SIZE="3"][COLOR="#800080"][COLOR="#4B0082"]If you've been helped by someone on this forum then help someone on this forum.[/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR]
•
Posts: 229
Threads: 8
Likes Received: 1 in 1 posts
Likes Given: 0
Joined: Jan 2009
thatbrian Wrote:I completely tested out (TESC) and I'm happy to say that I will be starting my MA on 9/10. Since I didn't have a GPA, I was very pessimistic about my chances of being accepted to my school of choice, which has a reputation for being "academically challenging".
The admissions department did contact me with questions about my (missing) GPA, so I explained that I had used credit by exam to obtain all 120 credits, and that TESC only gave letter grades for classes taken directly from them. I also emailed them a spreadsheet that I had put together that calculated my GPA. To determine my letter grades for each exam, I used materials from Excelsior (mainly), and CLEP and DSST.
Also, I had taken 5 ECEs, so I sent a transcript (with my application) from Excelsior as well as TESC, because the Excelsior transcript does show letter grades on it.
That's wonderful! I can't tell you how happy I am to hear it can be done... I have completely tested out of my degree and just recently started thinking about grad school. It's great that you got in with no GPA! Can I ask what school you are going to?
~Brittany
From 0 to 120 credits in ten months and seven days because of CollegePlus! and InstantCert!!!
AHHHH!!!!!!!! I DID IT!!!!!!!! Graduation, here I come!
"The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save." ~Zephaniah 3:17
•
|
