University of Maine at Presque Isle

[ss20ts]

Just bringing this thread up a bit... there's not too much available on UMPI. I applied for admission to their BLS program with a minor in management. I have almost 200 credits...30 thru clep/dsst, some RA but many NA credits which they READILY ACCEPTED! Finally. In total, I transferred 145 credits. 

I still have to fulfill their 30 hr residency requirement. I have 4 courses left to take within my major (required by UMPI... must have 12 hours within your major to meet residency requirement. 9 of those 12 must be UL) and then take the remaining 6 gen ed/elective courses. School starts on 3/16/2020... wish me luck! Going to try and knock these 30 hrs out in 1 term... but since the term is only 8 wks...I might need 2. And the BLS has no capstone. I love the Big 3, but this was best option for me since they took most of my NA credits without even putting up a fight lol.

How was UMPI for you?

[Teacherwannabe19]

anybody had their Sophia courses transfer in?

[ss20ts]

anybody had their Sophia courses transfer in?

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[Tedium]

anybody had their Sophia courses transfer in?

They are about a week into processing my transcripts. I was planning on posting my degree audit when it’s done to help out others.

The admissions people I talked with seemed very familiar with Sophia. Less so with UExcel. Anyway, I’m very hopeful. Problem is, my CLEP and UExcel are going snail mail, so that may take a while. Wasn’t it possible to electronically send CLEP? Did I just miss it?


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[Mom5]

This is simple just contact the school by phone and ask all this questions so we will be aware is this going to be the next BiG 4..

I also will call.

30 semester hours. 12 must be in your concentration or minor. 9 of them must be upper level.

The classes at UMPI are either extremely difficult full of papers and take a few months to finish, or very easy and could be finished in one week if you know the subject well already.

Nice people too. Their customer service is top notch! I got 12 credits from there, and 20 from HES throughout 2018.

I’m actually still enrolled at UMPI right now so if you guys have any questions shoot them over. Also, I think the school is more suited for someone that has about one year (or 2-3 terms if you have previous knowledge in accounting for example and you take the BLS accounting program) to get through the 30 credits of residency. We could think of it as a different option to WGU with less of a stigma since is tied to U of Maine.

Would love to hear more about UMPI courses!

[ss20ts]

anybody had their Sophia courses transfer in?

They are about a week into processing my transcripts. I was planning on posting my degree audit when it’s done to help out others.

The admissions people I talked with seemed very familiar with Sophia. Less so with UExcel. Anyway, I’m very hopeful. Problem is, my CLEP and UExcel are going snail mail, so that may take a while. Wasn’t it possible to electronically send CLEP? Did I just miss it?


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It's taken over 3 weeks and they still have not completed processing my transcripts.

[Lacedonia4]

Are they also nebhe?
Just wondering about tuition.

[ss20ts]

Are they also nebhe?
Just wondering about tuition.

Tuition is covered on their website.

No idea about NEBHE. That you could probably research on their website.

[Tedium]

Got my results in! Kind of confusing. The two Conflict Resolution courses came in as English Electives. They counted The Institutes as 3 credits and it came in as Intro. to Philosophy. That replaced an RA class, so that's not ideal with them only taking 30 ACE credits. They took Shmoop, CSM, and my old NFA credit. I was hoping CSM would cover one of my math requirements, but it just came in as a General Elective. Also, Project Management came in as IT Project Management. Kind of odd since it didn't cover IT at all.

I hadn't finished Sophia Ethics or Statistics when I sent my transcript, so I'll post an update with those, but it looks like they should take them. Just not entirely sure where they'll fall. Their system seems only half-intuitive.

All told, 108 credits transferred in, 43 of which were what they consider ACE credits. That's not counting 9 or so CLEP exams and 2 UExcels that had to be snail mailed. I'm hoping they let me curate which of those credits get put on the final transcript. I'm guessing so, since it says "posted" next to all 108 credits and you can only transfer in 90.

I'll continue to update everyone with my progress. I'll post my own thread once I actually enroll in the program and see how many competency credits I need to take with them.

BTW, I seem to only be able to post a quick reply, so I can't add my screenshot. Anyone else having this issue?

[rachel83az]

If you click "preview post", it should take you to the editor that allows you to upload screenshots?