EC - cancel enrollment

[eibluestar12]

TMW2010, Did you email admissions or did you have to be enrolled and have a grade before you asked for the scholarship?

[TMW2010]

I had applied and was enrolled as a POAG membership partner. I believe I had taken classes towards my 12 credits already. It was back in 2010, but I'll see if I can track down the actual timeline of when I asked.

[bs13]

I have IEEE membership and I am an international student living in USA. Am I eligible for partnership scholarship or any other scholarship?

[EI2HCB]

Folks this works. I emailed them on Thursday and I'll be awarded $700 next semester. Thanks very much for letting us all know. I was told I can claim it only once per year but still keeps some money in the bank. IEEE membership is part of Excelsior's partner program. You must enroll under the IEEE membership partner page at Excelsior. POAG membership is available for $25 and this allows cheaper cost per credit hour plus massively reduced enrollment. You should check the price difference between IEEE partnership and POAG. Associate POAG membership is open to all who support law enforcement and live a "good" life or some such designation they send you a card and you use your membership number to enroll. Certainly well worth being a member plus it helps Georgia Peace officers in other ways too!

[bs13]

Hi, Whom did you email? Could you please PM/post the email id?

[jefro]

I'm interested in this cancellation discussion.

I enrolled with EC about two weeks ago. Then my advisor told me that I needed to take the CCS120 EC Student Success 8 week seminar ($1,275) because I enrolled with less than 9 transfer credits. My plan is a BA in Liberal Arts through exams. Does anyone know if there's a way out of that 8 week class?

If not, I thought of canceling my enrollment, taking my first three CLEPS, and then enrolling again while by-passing this 9 credit minimum rule.

Anyone ever encounter this? Any ideas?

[TMW2010]

I'm interested in this cancellation discussion.

I enrolled with EC about two weeks ago. Then my advisor told me that I needed to take the CCS120 EC Student Success 8 week seminar ($1,275) because I enrolled with less than 9 transfer credits. My plan is a BA in Liberal Arts through exams. Does anyone know if there's a way out of that 8 week class?

If not, I thought of canceling my enrollment, taking my first three CLEPS, and then enrolling again while by-passing this 9 credit minimum rule.

Anyone ever encounter this? Any ideas?

If you do end up taking the EC Success course, there is a silver lining; it does count as fulfilling the Information Literacy requirement and grants three credits in the social sciences. Now, is it worth the cost? That's up to you.

My wife got told the same thing by EC because she wasn't bringing in any transfer credit at the time. She was fine with that because (unlike me) she's not big of testing and prefers more traditional learning methods (IE: actual classes). We're putting together low cost credit from a variety of sources (TEEX, NFA, Saylor, etc. - Hopefully ALEKS as well once they get the ACE thing cleared up) as well as getting her into both traditional (in-class) and online classes that cost a bit less than those which EC offers. She actually wanted to take the Success course, not having been in the school environment for over 20 years, and she was happy with it. (Even when I pointed out that I earned 2/3 of the credit needed for a Associates degree for about $800 when I went through EC via CLEPs).

The advisors were also really strict on the other class options they'd allow her to take at the time but she did convince them to let her get Comp I out of the way. She entered via POAG membership with the required 12 credits and used Federal Financial Aid with a Pell Grant so the cost didn't sting as much as if we were paying out of pocket.

The only way I know to get around it is to transfer in 9-12 credits ASAP. Knock out Analyzing and Interpreting Lit and another easy CLEP in an afternoon and make sure they get the scores sent to them.

[TMW2010]

TMW2010, Did you email admissions or did you have to be enrolled and have a grade before you asked for the scholarship?

I emailed them on April 14, 2010, which would mean that I was enrolled in 4 credits at the time and about 1/2 way done with them. It looks like the classes I was in started at the beginning of March that year. I was taking the 1 credit Research and Writing in the Social Sciences course required for my Psychology Major and another full 3 credit course.

So, no I had not completed any courses at that time through EC, but I was enrolled in two (with a third on deck for the second 8 weeks of the term). I believe I emailed either Financial Aid or the Partnership Services division. I can't tell from my email history in the MyExcelsior message box, they don't exactly show who you sent the message to, just the message, date, time and the fact that it was sent. I am kinda impressed though that they've still got all that stuff in there and I can access it almost four years later.