Who takes the most ACE credits?

[AngelofArcane]

So someone at Straighterline informed me the max credits any of these schools take is 60?

I asked then specifically about TESU and was repeated the same thing.

My reason to contact them was to ask which public universities accepted the most of ace credits so I wouldn't have to contact them one by one. I left more deflated then I expected too.

I didn't get a single answer except that they all basically take 60 max.

This didn't really make sense to me with what I thought I'd read here.


Second question:
Are the only ACE courses that provide a letter grade the ones which are proctored?

Isn't it pointless to strive for anything less then a letter grade with these public universities/CC?

I want something with the highest ACE credit transferability
since I can't really afford anything other then ACE.

I've done nothing but research this AGAIN in the past 4 days straight and thought I had it down till I spoke with the SL rep.

Overwhelming myself and just want to start but not if I will find myself unable to afford an additional 60 credits IN SCHOOL.

Need a school (public preferably ) that will accept the most credits possible but also still work for me if I ever decide to pursue a Masters outside of their 4 walls at another public university.

Can somone list the best schools who take the most ACE credits? Maybe list the top 3?

Also maybe help me understand the reasons to take have a letter grade vs non lettered?


Ty

[rlw74]

1. The straighterline rep was incorrect. See this...Transfer Credit
TESU will accept up to 90 credits from a single source. ACE is not the credit source, just the bank. So you can take courses from study.com and straighterline and any other course provider, transfer it all to the ACE credit bank and it will all transfer to TESU as long as no one provider accounts for more than 90 credits.

2. You can transfer 117 credit hours from ACE to any of the big 3 (TESU, Excelsior and Charter Oaks). They all require you take a 3 hour capstone course from them.

3. Letter grades do not transfer on proctored or non-proctored exams. Even transcripts sent to TESU from another college will show up as transferred credits without a letter grade and not affect your gpa. If you think you'll have a problem with grad school, check with them first. Some of us took a couple years at a community college or other brick and mortar colleges before we found this forum and have transcripts that we would send along with our TESU transcript. But some never took anything other than ACE credits and didn't have trouble getting into grad school. Some grad schools don't care if you have a gpa. For example, WGU doesn't. They will take your transcript from TESU and any from any other college you might have and admit you based on competency. So you'll need to work backwards. Find your end game - where you intent to go post-grad and work toward that goal.

[bjcheung77]

Thank you rlw74 for your responses...
OP, take your time and read through the wiki, in fact, I created a guide on there and it's in my signature too!

1) Most colleges accept less than 30, 45, up to 60 credits, and a handful (probably less than 1%) up to 90 credits.
There are only 3 that accept up to 114-117 credits (COSC, EC, TESU). I don't think the Straighterline rep was wrong.
They weren't informed of which schools accept how many, they went by the rule of thumb, 60 max credits for 95% of schools.

It's like calling a random bank and asking: hey, which Amex, Mastercard, Visa would I get the most rewards?
They only handle their own rewards, they won't know about any other bank or what cards they have.
Calling Straighterline and asking what other schools take would be the same type of question...

2) Straighterline is not a college/university or a school, they're a course provider that has ACE recommendation for college credit.
Just like the many other course providers, such as Study.com, they're recognized to provide college level training that transfer.
All ACE/NCCRS courses are graded differently from each quality provider, but everyone requires that 70%+ for college credit.
That means, each and every provider has their own grading system (very similar), but when transferred, it's pass/fail (credit/no credit).

Many who use ACE/NCCRS credit, use it as a substitute for CLEP/DSST because they're far (like me, 80 miles) from a testing site.
It takes me 1.5 hours to drive there and 1.5 hours to drive back, I think I'll make up the $$ by paying ACE/NCCRS courses instead.
The majority of schools we recommend here are public institutions, having a degree without a GPA won't be the end of the world.
Everyone who takes these type of degrees, generally use it as a "check box" to a Masters or to get a better career/job qualification.

Taking 4 days to get to know this information isn't much time, many people have spent weeks/months and maybe even years.
You may want to read through the Wiki for more info, check out some competency based degrees, or check out some grad school requirements.
Some people prefer the Big 3, others prefer the competency based degree providers such as Brandman, Hodges, Patten, WGU.
These competency based degree providers offer very affordable Bachelors - Hodges/Patten, WGU offer Masters as well, Brandman doesn't.

[Thorne]

The StraighterLine rep was both correct and incorrect. To elaborate:
No college that I am aware of will accept more than 60 credits from StraighterLine for a single degree, this is because they are all LL (Y1 and Y2 courses). For an AA or AS, this means you may feasibly be capable of finishing one entirely by using ONLY StraighterLine. For a BA or BS, you will only be able to transfer in your LL requirements (the ones I've seen require around 75LL and 45UL credits, give or take). A number of colleges (TESU included) will accept more than 60 credits from StraighterLine, but they may not all apply to your degree path.

[ndelco]

The BSBA does not require 60 UL credits. I only have 40 in my degree plan and I didn't even plan for that many. It just so happens that many Study.com courses come in as UL to TESU.

[Old Guy]

Doesn't TESU require something like 18 UL credits in some programs?

[bjcheung77]

Doesn't TESU require something like 18 UL credits in some programs?

Actually, that's correct, the AOS is where the majority of them are going to be. They need 15 UL in the AOS and the Capstone.

[rlw74]

Yep, you only need the 15 UL plus the 3 UL from the capstone - so technically 102 credits can be LL ***BUT THIS DEPENDS ON YOUR DEGREE PROGRAM***. I emphasize that because I have not actually looked at each degree program. Many of them require a particular set of courses and they may have more UL courses than the BALS program that I am familiar with. I know with the BALS I had way more UL credits than I needed just because I had taken other courses from other colleges over the years that came in as UL automatically. But in looking at my evaluation they came in as free electives or in the AOS portion where it didn't matter if they were UL or LL.

[dfrecore]

Doesn't TESU require something like 18 UL credits in some programs?

They only require 12cr of UL in the BSBA. All in the AOS.

[AngelofArcane]

Here is a link for anyone reading this thread. (Transfer credits)

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