Int'l Student- New to CLEP, DSST, STRAIGHTERLINE etc- & can't decide

[yaserhu]

Come on Desmond! British education? You mean Scottish, right?

yaserhu, you are taking classes at Heriot-Watt University but I am assuming you now think you will be better off with a US bachelors degree instead of the Executive Certificate or Diploma in Management? If you do decide to apply to a US college then unlike Desmond and myself with our Irish and Scottish high school classes, none of your Canadian high school classes will transfer. I forget whom it was, but another member confirmed this.

I used World Education Services to evaluate my Scottish qualifications and you simply ask them to forward the transcript they create to the US school(s) you wish to apply to. There are others out there though, like Educational Credential Evaluators. In your case the classes you have taken at Heriot-Watt University will be evaluated for their US equivalency and then it is up to the accepting university to decide what they will apply these classes as. The evaluation is not cheap - I paid around $300 but I did have over 100 credits to transfer, although the cost is the same no matter how many classes they evaluate.

You should look at the wiki to start familiarizing yourself with some degree plans and the different ways of getting there. In fact, mbruz just posted a first attempt at a BSBA in Marketing plan yesterday.

You had concerns about Straighterline not holding the same value as other tests but they are taken online using your webcam and a proctor, so they have the same value as any other test. I see there is a CLEP test center in Dubai and several DSST sites too, so you should be good to go with either of those.

Thanks Alba for the info. I am planning to take the US Bachelor now- and continue after that my study towards completeing the rest of the MBA requirements of Heriot Watt. So a US Bachelor degree followed by a UK (Scottish) MBA

When i am ready to consider credit transfer- may be in a month or two from now- i will consult the above contacts or any recommended by the colleges and evaluate whether it's worth trying or not because that $ 300 might save time and effort- although not guaranteed, but i might try. It actually depends on my progress with CLEP or DSST.
Thank you for the links and the new Post that i didn't see before

Yes Amideast is a centre i've been to before- so that's added value