[SIZE="4"]Hello everyone.

Can anyone who has taken FEMA courses online verify whether or not they received college credit from Thomas Edison State College. The course is:

IS-253: Coordinating Environmental and Historic Preservation Compliance.

Someone posted on here a while back, all of the courses that they have received college credit for and the ones that they didn't receive college credit for from TESC. This just happened to be one of the courses on his/her list that he/she didn't take at the moment the post was posted. I also need confirmation on 2 more FEMA courses as well:

*IS-302: Modular Emergency Radiological Response Transportation Training.
*IS-331: Introduction to Radiological Emergency Preparedness.

Just want to know if anyone who has taken these FEMA courses can confirm if they received college credit from TESC or not. I'd appreciate the help on this matter.

And last but not least... I also need confirmation on what the maximum number of credits are that TESC will accept for college credit from FEMA. I need to know what their policy is at it pertains to Business Majors. I've read on this forum before that Excelsior only accepts up to 15 credits from FEMA for Business Majors. I would like to know what TESC's policy is on this.

As for me I am starting on the path to earn my Bachelors Degree in Business Administration in just 9 months! I am starting from scratch meaning I have no previous college credits under my belt. I still haven't decided between Excelsior or TESC as to what college I will eventually go with. I've also researched Charter Oak State College and they seem to be pretty cool but I've noticed that people on this forum don't seem to talk about them too much. So I've kinda put them on the back burner...making it a toss up between Excelsior or TESC. I do not plan on enrolling as of yet until I take all the CLEP/DANTES I need to be at least 85-90% finished with my program. I'm trying to save as much money as I can and don't want to get caught up paying extra annual enrollment fees. To date...I have successfully completed 7 FEMA courses online. So technically I have 7 college credits!!!(YAY) I'm going to finish taking the other 22 that I know are credit worthy. Then I'm going to start taking CLEP/DANTES exams.

I'm going the FEMA route for now because I am currently unemployed and don't have the money to take CLEP/DANTES exams right now. But I am studying and going over the Petersons practice exams. I promise all of you on this forum...in 9 months or less I will be a bona fide Degree Holder!!! Thanks to all for this forum and for all the good advice I have received thus far. I love how everyone supports each other in their endeavors, that's awesome. Now if we can just work on the rest of the world! Thanks again to all and may peace rest in your heart as it does in mine.

From a loyal degree seeker,

Marshall[/SIZE]

has anyone taken the Excelsior master's degree program?

If so in what area and would you recommend?

Hi, i have quite a few CLEPS and DANTES from around 1991-1996. My question basically is if i take a CLEP/DANTES how long are they good for? I hope to get many of them transferred over for an Excelisor degree.

InstantCert talks about a Risk Free Crash Course online, and you can pass your exams in just days. What is everyone's experience with this?

I remember there was someone on the boards that was taking the ECE Business Strategy course. I was looking for feedback from those that are taking or have taken this course. We seem to lack that information on this board but I assume some have taken this course.

Well I just passed the World Religion test with a 58. My highest score yet, which is not saying alot.

My question is, which test should I take next?

I have passed several dante/cleps but all of them with the lower end scores, like I said that 58 was the highest I have scored yet.

A run down of my history and subjects that I have passed.

Supervision 52
Principles of Management 50
Human Resource Management 54
English w essay 56
Freshmen Comp 51
Tech Writing 50
Intro to Computing only passed by a point
World Religion 58
A and I Literature 51
Intro to Business 52

Now the ones I have failed.

Here's to your health (failed by a point)
Ethics in America (failed by 2 points)
English without essay
MIS failed by ALOT


So with that said which should I take next? Any thoughts or opinions would be very helpful.

First of all I have to say thank you to InstantCert and all of you on this forum..You guys have been so unbelievably helpfull in my pursuit of my degree. The only bad part is knowing the fact that for so slong I had no clue these options existed and could have had my degree many years ago..
Couple questions..I need some help with my course selection for my Finance degree. I know most people wait until they have most of there credits. If I plan on finishing my degree this year anyway is there any sense in waiting to enroll instead of enrolling and just getting the Excelior advisor help? I also was wondering if the finance degree can be obtained totally through testing or if maybe someone has a degree plan for finance. If I plan on getting my Masters does it really matter if my undergrad is general business or finance anyway?

I have 23 credits from previous college experience

ENG 101 INTRODUCTION TO WRITING 3
ENG 102 EXPOSITORY AND RESEARCH WRITING 3
MATH 109 PRECALCULAS 3
HIST 142 WESTERN CIVILIZATION 3
BIOL 101 CONCEPTS OF BIOLOGY 4
PHIL 140 CONTEMPORARY MORAL ISSUES 3
MATH 111 College Math 4

and have passed the following clep/dantes

BMGT 110 INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS 3
ECON 201 PRINCIPLE OF MACROECONMOICS 3
ECON 203 PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS 3
IFSM 201 INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER BASED SYSTEMS 3
ACCT 220 PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING 3
PSYC 100 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY 3

Does anybody have experience with the practice tests offered by Prometric? I was wondering if they are a good gauge of progress or if they are harder than the actual test like the peterson's. Thanks

Farmerboy

Greetings everyone,

I am awaiting my degree plan from Excelsior right now for a BS in Lib Arts. I know I’ll need a bunch of upper level arts/sciences. I’d appreciate if anyone would list a bunch of upper level DANTES/CLEP/EXC and include those that are 6 credits vs 3 credits. Don’t be too bashful to say which ones are really easy too. Is there anything out like the FEMA courses I’ve read about that can cover arts/sciences at the upper level.

Appreciate your time, and thank you, erj

I've taken five CLEPs and two DANTES tests in the military, but my scores look much different than the scores reported in many of your posts. Instead of receiving two digit scores like "50" or "60" my scores have been three digit like "520" or "510". Does anyone know how to translate these scores?

Appreciate your time, thank you, erj