Does TESU typically take 25 days to review transcripts?

[collegechick]

Earn College Credit | Saylor Academy

Yes, but I don't know if TESU accepts those towards my degree. I was just curious where others pulled credit info from TESU to see equivalencies at Saylor.org.

[collegechick]

Free ethics course (don't do the $5 one, that isn't ACE-approved): Preserve the trust on which insurance transactions are based with an understanding of ethics

Saylor has BUS210: Corporate Comm - it comes in to TESU as MAN-373, but will work in the Comm AOS.

When clicking on the drop down menu to get testing info on The Institutes, that ethics course is no where. Could a Saylor.org Ethics course be used instead of The Institutes? Just curious why that one is suggested?

[jsd]

Just from personal experience...Once i had my call with a counselor, everything went much faster for me. I was able to communicate with them directly and get my questions answered and adjustments made to my plan usually within 24 hours. I found the call to help speed things up for me tremendously.

just some additional insight.

They'll always answer your questions via email within a business day, though. The only thing that takes forever is the initial evaluation, in my experience.

[collegechick]

Just from personal experience...Once i had my call with a counselor, everything went much faster for me. I was able to communicate with them directly and get my questions answered and adjustments made to my plan usually within 24 hours. I found the call to help speed things up for me tremendously.

just some additional insight.

You're right, I probably should just wait to be assigned a counselor. Just thought I could knock off a few credits in the next couple of weeks until they get to me. Eager to start/finish this project.

[jsd]

Yes, but I don't know if TESU accepts those towards my degree. I was just curious where others pulled credit info from TESU to see equivalencies at Saylor.org.

here Thomas Edison State University | Saylor Academy and here Open Course Option (for that second link, look for NCCRS or Ace Credit in the "Assessment for Credit" column)

some of the newer courses might not be reflected yet.

[davewill]

You're right, I probably should just wait to be assigned a counselor. Just thought I could knock off a few credits in the next couple of weeks until they get to me. Eager to start/finish this project.

With a little help you definitely should be able to. Folks here can help you identify courses that should be a safe bet.

[collegechick]

here Thomas Edison State University | Saylor Academy and here Open Course Option (for that second link, look for NCCRS or Ace Credit in the "Assessment for Credit" column)

some of the newer courses might not be reflected yet.

Ah ha! Thank you for your help. I still don't see many UL Communications options.

[High_Order1]

you don't *need* to have a meeting with a counselor, it's just a good idea to. If you already have everything mapped out through the forums, no need to talk to them about your plan. I never did.

I followed that. As a result, I am arguing between the pla department and the counselors as to whether PLA-200 is needed if I already have it. I would advise talking to someone after the system plugs in all your credits.

I can't imagine talking to a TESU counselor! They're morons. If you have a good plan from this forum, skip the counselor and just move on with your plan!

I've been given four different ways to my goal via the counselor.

They'll always answer your questions via email within a business day, though. The only thing that takes forever is the initial evaluation, in my experience.

This has not been my experience.

collegechick - I don't have enough experience to help you. I know that all of my GenEd guesses have been ok, but don't come in exactly as I expected they would. The only safe bet I'd give you is TES-100 or any of the basic straighterline courses like english 101, chemistry/biology, intro to communications, aleks intermediate algebra. I haven't seen any pushback on those.

[dfrecore]

I followed that. As a result, I am arguing between the pla department and the counselors as to whether PLA-200 is needed if I already have it. I would advise talking to someone after the system plugs in all your credits.

I think this is a different issue than whether or not the advisors at TESU can help. This is a problem that has been encountered many times, especially if Todd Silben is involved. Mot of the time, it's determined that taking PLA-200 at TESU is NOT required, but for some reason, it keeps coming back up.




I've been given four different ways to my goal via the counselor.



This has not been my experience.

collegechick - I don't have enough experience to help you. I know that all of my GenEd guesses have been ok, but don't come in exactly as I expected they would. The only safe bet I'd give you is TES-100 or any of the basic straighterline courses like english 101, chemistry/biology, intro to communications, aleks intermediate algebra. I haven't seen any pushback on those. MANY of the courses discussed here on the forum are either already listed on TESU's website (CLEP, DSST, ACP) or on the provider's website (SL, Study.com), so there's no need to worry about them.

Part of this is whether you're talking about credits you're trying to transfer in, or what you can take to finish your degree.

When you're transferring credits from another school, then you need to wait for the eval, because we can guess on many courses, but can't for plenty of others. I've come very close most of the time when people ask me to make a spreadsheet. The individual courses may end up in a different category than we expected (Psych 101 ends up in Gen Ed Electives instead of Knowledge of Human Cultures, while Humanities 101 is vice versa), but the number of credits in each category is right on. And, if I really don't know what something will come in as, I always say wait to see what they do with it. Better to err on the side of caution in that case.

If you're trying to figure out which courses to take, if it's a course that we know for certain and has been transferred into TESU MANY times, then you should be fine. If it's one that hasn't, then you need to get it pre-approved. For the BSBA, it's easy to tell people what they can take , because so many people have gotten that degree, and so many of these courses have been used. For different degrees, it really just depends. Better to work with the school at that point.

[swalke321]

TESU has a PR TECEP but it is considered lower level.

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