Just wondering ?

[kiyanalynn]

since your able to test out of so many courses
how to you know what your GPA is?
dont most grad schools reqiure at least 3.0 ?

[Yenisei]

You don't have a GPA unless you take a course with whichever Big Three school you graduate from. With EC and COSC it is a non-issue because you have to take a capstone course, at a minimum, with them. Grad schools also want to see transcripts from all schools attended.

[kiyanalynn]

where is the capstone class located ?
your whole gpa comes from one in person class ?

[Yenisei]

You take the capstone course online, but, yeah, it can generate your entire GPA if that's the only course you take with the school.

[NAP]

Welcome to the forum!

Excelsior is unusual in allowing us to transfer our grades as well as our credits from courses taken at other colleges. Excelsior also awards grades for some exams, such as ECE (Excelsior College Exams), UExcel, and DSST/DANTES (non-refreshed versions). CLEP exams are not graded. 2 GPAs are calculated - one for Excelsior courses and one for transfer courses/exams.

[kiyanalynn]

THANK YOU FOR THE WELCOME !!:hurray:

I have no college credits and i will be a "freshman"

i would like to get my B.A in criminal justice / corrections
while attending my local CC for nursing prerequisites and american signlanguage classes ...

my ultimate goal is to be a correctional/military nurse or a parole officer

is attending my local CC while taking excelsior classes a good idea ?

how long will a B.A take to complete ?

[ryoder]

There are roadmaps out there for a few bas. If you put some time in right now in searching this forum and reading up on some clep and dsst based roadmaps you will save yourself a lot of time and money.
I wish I knew about this stuff when i was first in college. If I had i would have graduated ten years earlier.

You need about 120 credits to graduate and all schools require general education credits like 6 English, 6 math, 6 history, 6 humanities, 6 science etc. These can be filled in by clep testing at almost all schools. I would start there and if it were me I would only take comm college courses that you cannot clep or dsst or test out of.

Also where do you intend to graduate from? Make sure you look up the clep or dsst articulationdocument for your school. It will tell you what clepequals what class.

Some schools like usf here in Tampa only allow 35 or so credits from testing. Excelsior and Thomas Edison and others have no limits on test credit.

Do some reading, planning and start studying for and actually take one of the easier clep tests and it will all start to make more sense. Your Cleo credits will transfer to your school and will also stay on file at the college board for 20 years where you can have your complete transcript sent to any college you want.