Foreigner confused with credit categories at EC

[gilette]

Hi all,

I have been browsing the forum for a while and after reading several of the members' posts, I decided to get an Associates Degree at EC, which would be very helpful to advance in my career. I have some university experience and sent the grades that I got to ECE for evaluation. So far I have the following credits:

Introduction to Management 2.50
Markets, Hierarchies and Networks 2.50
Organizational Behavior 2.50
Web Programming 2.50
Computing Fundamentals 5.00
Beginning Spanish II 2.50
Beginning Spanish I 2.50
Intermediate French I 2.50
Intermediate French II 2.50
The Linguistics of French 4.00
Crisis, Nation and Identity: Perspectives on Modern France 4.00
Written French 8.00


For the moment, I am thinking about taking things slowly and getting an Associates Degree, just so that I can get used to how the American study system works and experience the tests.
However, with the different credits classifications and requirements for each type of Associates, I am not sure which Associates would be closer to get with the credits that I already have now.

I am in the process of making my application at EC and I would eternally be grateful for your guidance and advice.

[NAP]

Welcome to the forum!

Let me assure you that we all go through the learning process of understanding the college system and policies. When we transfer to the Big 3, there are a lot of new things to learn, too.

A good place to start is by downloading the Student Guide to Credit by Exam. https://www.excelsior.edu/469
Use the CLEP/DSST section as a guide to figure out which categories your credits will fulfill. If you post your results here, we can look it over for you. (Is that the number of credits that you earned at the college or is that the number that the foreign credit evaluation recommended?)

Any time the degree chart says "Arts & Sciences", it means anything within Humanities, Social Science, History, Math, or Natural Science. "Applied Professional" is a free electives section that does not have to be in the previous categories; it includes many other subjects like computing, business, or health.

The Liberal Arts degrees are extremely flexible. Are you interested in something more specific like business or computing?