For those in California

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Thought I’d share a couple of things I learned recently when I enrolled in my local community college to knock out a class for Excelsior requirement. 
-they seem to be very lenient with the board of governors waiver right now. If you’re on a budget, take a look. A free class (plus a couple of dollars processing), and maybe a grant if you take enough units at once makes for free money. Even without a grant, free RA classes are good, right?
-I was told that they accept CLEP. Not sure about the others, but this one doesn’t accept Sophia (yet). This may be common knowledge here, but thought I’d share it. 
In summary: this may not be the fastest route, but for those on a budget and needing a couple of classes, it may be worth checking out your community college. I needed an ethics class, and by adding a second class I’m getting paid to take them instead of paying $1200ish (after Sophia discount) to take it at excelsior, and found that after transferring everything back to the CC I need that same ethics class and 1 accounting class to finish an AS in business entrepreneurship.

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Thought I’d share a couple of things I learned recently when I enrolled in my local community college to knock out a class for Excelsior requirement. 
-they seem to be very lenient with the board of governors waiver right now. If you’re on a budget, take a look. A free class (plus a couple of dollars processing), and maybe a grant if you take enough units at once makes for free money. Even without a grant, free RA classes are good, right?
-I was told that they accept CLEP. Not sure about the others, but this one doesn’t accept Sophia (yet). This may be common knowledge here, but thought I’d share it.

The BOG fee waiver has always been a great option for folks with lower incomes. I know many that have benefited from it greatly.  As someone else mentioned, Modesto Junior College is giving completely free tuition (no BOG waiver and no income requirements; not sure if it's only for in-state students) to anyone for spring semester.

As far as Sophia, your local community college probably wouldn't know about it, or about study.com or any of the other ACE providers, but they *should* know about ACE (CLEP credit is, I believe, actually ACE credit).  And Sophia's course are all ACE reviewed and recommended.  I know that American River College specifically is listed as accepting ACE credits, and I believe Modesto is also on the ACE list.  So it might take some calling around to find the right person who knows about it, but at least according to both ACE and ARC's websites, they take it... which likely means most other CA community colleges also accept it.

A friend of mine suggested contacting the veterans services arm of your local community college to talk about ACE credit, because if any department would know about it, it would probably be those folks.

Please update if you get anything definitive. I know a lot of folks in CA who could benefit from ACE to complete their CA community college degrees.

[Insert Name]

Thought I’d share a couple of things I learned recently when I enrolled in my local community college to knock out a class for Excelsior requirement. 
-they seem to be very lenient with the board of governors waiver right now. If you’re on a budget, take a look. A free class (plus a couple of dollars processing), and maybe a grant if you take enough units at once makes for free money. Even without a grant, free RA classes are good, right?
-I was told that they accept CLEP. Not sure about the others, but this one doesn’t accept Sophia (yet). This may be common knowledge here, but thought I’d share it.

The BOG fee waiver has always been a great option for folks with lower incomes. I know many that have benefited from it greatly.  As someone else mentioned, Modesto Junior College is giving completely free tuition (no BOG waiver and no income requirements; not sure if it's only for in-state students) to anyone for spring semester.

As far as Sophia, your local community college probably wouldn't know about it, or about study.com or any of the other ACE providers, but they *should* know about ACE (CLEP credit is, I believe, actually ACE credit).  And Sophia's course are all ACE reviewed and recommended.  I know that American River College specifically is listed as accepting ACE credits, and I believe Modesto is also on the ACE list.  So it might take some calling around to find the right person who knows about it, but at least according to both ACE and ARC's websites, they take it... which likely means most other CA community colleges also accept it.

A friend of mine suggested contacting the veterans services arm of your local community college to talk about ACE credit, because if any department would know about it, it would probably be those folks.

Please update if you get anything definitive. I know a lot of folks in CA who could benefit from ACE to complete their CA community college degrees.

I’ll definitely update as I find things out. I’m thinking the only way to really know is to just have all of them sent to the school and see what happens. I may wait on that until I’m enrolled in my last required class, because if they accept everything I’ll be over my 90 units (like, way over) and ineligible for financial aid. lol