High School Credits Transferring?

[Derek]

For high school, I went to a vocational school where I had taken computer science. I ended up earning 13 credits that would transfer to my local community college.

The classes they transferred towards at my community college were:

ACC-112 Prin Financ Acct I/SprdSheet - TR 4.00 Credits
CIS-101 Introduction to Computers - TR 3.00 Credits
CIS-111 Programming in BASIC - TR 3.00 Credits
CIS-118 Intro to Microsoft Office -TR 3.00 Credits

Now, my Community College won't send out my transcripts to TESC as they claim there is a hold on the account :mad: Long story short, they want $1,400 for their mistake, and the petition committee only meets once a month.

So, I'm fairly curious whether I can get my transcript and paperwork that I'd send to my community college from my highschool and give it to TESC?

Long process, however, I'm hoping it would work. Anyone have any situations that were similar and they took/didn't take them?

Thanks,

Derek

[cookderosa]

So sorry Derek, but you have to pay your bill. That $1400 is likely outstanding tuition or something from not dropping or not paying a bill. What is confusing, but important to understand, is that your CC (anyone's college for that matter) "owns" the credit, so unless/until you pay them, they won't give it to you.

In fact, they own it forever. If you pay this off and then become delinquent again, they will again hold the credit. Just because TESC puts it on a TESC transcript, the CC is the owner/originator of the credit, and you'll still have to be in good financial standing.

Even if you obtain a copy of your transcript, TESC won't accept it from you. You need to have an official transcript sent from your CC directly to TESC.

Sorry, that's not the news you wanted.

Cheaper (but more work) is to start fresh. You can test out of these 4 (or any other 4 classes) and ignore the credit you already earned. There are tests for computers and accounting, not sure about the other 2, but tests are just under $100 each, so you could (in theory) test out of 4 new classes for $400 compared to paying your CC $1400 and never look back. Starting over would save you $1000.

[Derek]

Eh, that's what I figured, however, the credits technically originated from the high school, did they not?

I guess I'm going to have to file that petition for their counselor not giving me the proper information.

I had to drop due to my mom coming down with RSD and thus going onto disability/social security, so I had to help out and work full time to just voluntarily help with the bills. In the process, I dropped my classes, even though the counselor suggested I wait another week until the deadline, but I urged I needed to do it right away. And now somehow I need to pay back my NJ Stars scholarship even though the counselor told me improper information... Heh. Those classes were easy enough to test out of anyway. I'm sure I could do it.

[Merlin]

Eh, that's what I figured, however, the credits technically originated from the high school, did they not?

If the credit originated at your High School, I'd imagine you could contact them to ask about the potential to send that to another college. If the agreement between the high school is with a specific CC (as in the CC is the one who actually issues the credits, not the HS), then they are probably not transferable without involving the CC, and you'll have to pay off the debt or start over as mentioned above.

[cookderosa]

Eh, that's what I figured, however, the credits technically originated from the high school, did they not?

No. The high school and CC likely worked out a dual enrollment type of agreement in which someone teaches (either the high school or CC) and both agree to give credit. It works both ways, sometimes the CC sends a teacher into the high school and sometimes the high school sends the student to the CC, it doesn't matter which way it goes. The high school credit is yours- you graduated high school and own it- you don't have the pay the college for THAT. But....if you want those classes to ALSO be CC credit, then you have to settle up the CC. Now, you had a scholarship, and I understand that, but somewhere there was an agreement that would have outlined the specifics regarding dropping/paying/etc. It wouldn't hurt just to ask for a copy of whatever you signed, so you can read it again and see if everything is on the up and up- no harm in that. Hey, maybe there IS a mistake somewhere!?

I guess I'm going to have to file that petition for their counselor not giving me the proper information.

No matter what was told/not told to you, somewhere is an agreement you signed. A dual enrollment contract or such, ask for a copy of it.

I had to drop due to my mom coming down with RSD and thus going onto disability/social security, so I had to help out and work full time to just voluntarily help with the bills. In the process, I dropped my classes, even though the counselor suggested I wait another week until the deadline, but I urged I needed to do it right away. And now somehow I need to pay back my NJ Stars scholarship even though the counselor told me improper information... Heh. Those classes were easy enough to test out of anyway. I'm sure I could do it.

Well, just double check that they are right, that you do owe the money, then you can decide. If you owe it, I'd seriously just forget it and take the tests. Again, for about $400 you could earn all those credits back. Since you will be a transfer student at TESC, those classes won't even come in as letter grades- so there is no reason to worry about that. There could be an ethical dilemma about paying a debt, but I'll leave to wrestle that out with your conscience. The CC may not EVER report the debt, but maybe they will and it would end up in collections. If it's only a matter of "we won't release yoru records" and nothing more, I'd walk away. Keep me posted, I'd love to hear how this all unfolds.