Transfering more than 90 Alternative Credits to TESU?

[glancing7924]

I have 100+ credits from Sophia, but most aren't relevant to my Computer Science degree at TESU. It does cover my General Education though.

If I earn more relevant ACE credits, can I choose which 90 ACE credits count towards my degree?

Will TESU allow me to transfer additional ACE credits after my Sophia ones are in, and can I exclude the irrelevant ACE credits? I have 25 RA credits for electives and hope to only take 2 courses at TESU.

Has anyone experienced this, and can you confirm how it works?

Thank you.

[bjcheung77]

Yes! That's what I did when I started with StraighterLine, as they were one of the few that were ACE recommended for credit, I ended up with 104 or more credits with them alone. Study.com at the time was slightly cheaper than it is now, plus Sophia.org was $329/course!

Anyways, to answer your question, you only get 90 non RA credits at most added to your degree plan, the rest fall outside the degree and into the other courses field. It'll still be on your transcript though as transfer credits, so it's not lost, just not used in your degree.

Technically, you can't choose which class you want from ACE onto your degree plan, it goes like this, RA first as you need up to 30, then ACE/NCCRS that can go towards the degree, if the ACE/NCCRS classes don't fall into any requirement, it goes under the other field.

If there is a need to switch classes around, you can do so, thus, it's really a matter of what you have and what you need. For example, if you have two science classes that are ACE and you want to move two other science classes into that slot, there really isn't a need to swap them.

[glancing7924]

Great! It was really stressing me out. Thank you for the quick response. I appreciate it.

Yes! That's what I did when I started with StraighterLine, as they were one of the few that were ACE recommended for credit, I ended up with 104 or more credits with them alone.  Study.com at the time was slightly cheaper than it is now, plus Sophia.org was $329/course!  

Anyways, to answer your question, you only get 90 non RA credits at most added to your degree plan, the rest fall outside the degree and into the other courses field.  It'll still be on your transcript though as transfer credits, so it's not lost, just not used in your degree.

Technically, you can't choose which class you want from ACE onto your degree plan, it goes like this, RA first as you need up to 30, then ACE/NCCRS that can go towards the degree, if the ACE/NCCRS classes don't fall into any requirement, it goes under the other field.

If there is a need to switch classes around, you can do so, thus, it's really a matter of what you have and what you need.  For example, if you have two science classes that are ACE and you want to move two other science classes into that slot, there really isn't a need to swap them.