COSC Questions Answered Here :)

[burbuja0512]

Thanks for all the wonderful information. Still a few more questions.

I just found out what Straighterline was today. It seems to me that if I can complete a few courses from them within one month it may be cheaper than taking the CLEP exams. Anyways, the website states that "In addition to the application fee, students pay the Charter Oak State College annual credit registry fee of $300 ($405 for non-Connecticut residents) which covers all coursework submitted during a 1 year period." Does this apply to matriculated students. It just seems odd that they would charge you for Straighterline but not for CLEP.

Thanks for all of your help!

Not a problem. I didn't pay any additional fee for my Straighterline courses. I think that they might be talking about people who want to put SL courses on a COSC transcript and then transfer them to a school that wouldn't normally accept SL. If this is the case, FHSU in Kansas will do it for $35 bucks, so COSC would be an expensive way to "launder" SL credits. (**giving Cookderosa full credit for coming up with the hilarious 'laundering' term)

For matriculated COSC students, SL is very easy. You just tell your SL advisor to send the credits to COSC and a week or two later, they're on your transcript. It's very easy.

I liked SL, and it is a cheap way to get credits, but of course it's not easy, and not quite as simple as I thought it would be, but if you've got the time, you can really get a great deal on credits. SL is self-paced and at least for the classes I took, the only grades were for tests and the assignments were not-for-credit, so in other words, optional. If you do SL, you WILL need the book, but you don't have to buy the current 2011 $200 copy of the book. In all cases, I bought an older copy of the same text and spent less than $15.

HTH!