Excelsior preliminary review

[Sora]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post here and after receiving the preliminary review, i got more questions than answers.
Please lend me your knowledge.

Bachelor of Science Liberal Arts

ARTS AND SCIENCES
Arts and Sciences Lower Level 0.00
Arts and Sciences Upper Level 21.00
TOTAL ARTS AND SCIENCES REMAINING 21.00

APPLIED PROFESSIONAL or ADDITIONAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
Any Academic Area Lower Level 42.00
Any Academic Area Upper Level 9.00
TOTAL IN ANY ACADEMIC AREA REMAINING 51.00
Totals listed above must include the following requirements: 0.00

General Education Requirement:
Written English 3.00
Humanities Distribution 6.00
Humanities Core 3.00
Social Sciences/History Distribution 0.00
Natural Sciences/Math Distribution 0.00
Math Requirement 0.00
Natural Science requirement 0.00
Information Literacy 1.00
Capstone Course Requirement 3.00

Depth Requirement in the Arts and Sciences (Depth 1)
(included in the total Arts and Sciences)
Upper Level Depth 1 3.00
Lower Level Depth 1 9.00

Depth Requirement in Any Academic Area (Depth 2)
Upper Level Depth 2 3.00
Lower Level Depth 2 9.00

Looks like they didn't count the class i'm currently taking
First-Year Composition II
Interpersonal Communication
Hist W Civ/Mid Ages-1789
Racial & Ethnic Minorities (sociology)
Human Anatomy & Physiology II w lab

future course (spring term)
General Chemistry I with lab
Fundamental Organic Chemistry with lab
General Biology (Majors) II with lab
Microbiology with lab

future course (summer term)
General Chemistry II with lab
Intro to biochemistry

With this class where do I currently stand?
What other class do I have to take to graduate? (beside the 4 credit capstone)
I do have 32 fema credits also.

another question is can i request for another review?

side note * my current Community college have a partnership with Excelsior and I can transfer up to 90 credits.

please help me out.

I Thank you in advance. ^_^

[Lindagerr]

I don't know much about excelsior, but TESC usually does not count credits for classes in progress unless you are taking them from TESC. Also Preliminary or unofficial reviews leave a lot of questions for you to figure out yourself until you enroll or someone here helps.

Just out of curiosity why go for a liberal arts degree with so mant science and math credits? TESC would take up to 90 CC credits and you look fairly close to the BA in Mathmatics and Natural Sciences with the classes you are taking or are planning. TESC will take up to 27 FEMA credits for your Free electives and TESC takes them from FEMA free, you don't have to pay to get them transcribed.

Of course I am partial to TESC because it worked for me. Today is not a busy day on the forum, but come back tomorrow and you will probably get more answers from EC pros. This is a great forum and was a life saver to me.

[Sora]

i think on excelsior it suppose to be BS in biology.
(looking for a quick bachelor of science degree, i will be going be transferring to overseas university and before i could transfer credits. i need to have at least a bachelor of science degree)
as for me excelsior is cheaper because of the partnership with my CC.
I also submitted the preliminary review too, but still waiting for them.

I have all the math credits to calculus.
(going to take analyzing and interpreting lit next saturday)

another major thing i forgot was that, i need to have this degree by june of 2013.
thanks again ^_^

[NAP]

Earning all of your upper-level credits last and in such a short time frame is going to be tricky, especially if you are taking upper-level science courses.

For some ideas on the Biology major, here is Sunshine's degree plan (some parts of it are out-of-date):

http://www.degreeforum.net/general-educa...#post77974

If your next college will allow you to take exams for credit within this degree, here is a list of upper-level exams (for a Liberal Studies degree):

http://www.degreeforum.net/excelsior-tho...post115586

What subjects are you planning for depth(s)?

What type of deal will you get through the partnership?

[Sora]

Earning all of your upper-level credits last and in such a short time frame is going to be tricky, especially if you are taking upper-level science courses.

For some ideas on the Biology major, here is Sunshine's degree plan (some parts of it are out-of-date):

http://www.degreeforum.net/general-educa...#post77974

If your next college will allow you to take exams for credit within this degree, here is a list of upper-level exams:

http://www.degreeforum.net/excelsior-tho...post115586

What subjects are you planning for depth(s)?

What type of deal will you get through the partnership?

I email excelsior to find out what kind of deal i get from coming from a partnership school and they told me that it will be provided after i enrolled.
(bummer)
my transfer school needs letter grades, for testing is out of question. >.<

i also checked tesc BA in Natural Sciences/Mathematics and it seems that, i might consider this option too.
now i don't want to take anymore math class.

so could i use biology and chemistry class to fulfill the 30 credit requirements?

i also search around that tesc doesn't show gpa or grades for transfer school, is this true?
does this mean that all my transfer grade and gpa will be mark as 0?

thank you again^^

[NAP]

Excelsior does award grades for some of the DSST exams (2-digit scores) and all of the ECE exams.

Yes, Excelsior will count all of your transfer grades toward an overall GPA. You will get a second GPA for the Excelsior specific grades.

TESC does not transfer grades or count them toward your GPA, which is a normal policy for most schools. It is likely that you will need to submit all of your transcripts to your future school. Then they will be able to take all of your grades into account.