National Education Alliance Counseling Center

[Prloko]

I was at my Military Education Center the other day and happened upon a brochure for then National Education Alliance Counseling Center. Apparently for an approx $300 fee (dependent on a couple factors), you can send them your transcripts and they will apply them to a database that will populate how your credits will transfer to majors at 300 colleges and universities. The 300 are mostly small state colleges and couple for-profits, but it also includes the Big 3. It got me thinking if we had newbies who were going to submit transcripts to all of the Big 3, thats about $225 in evaluation fees, not including sending transcripts to all three schools (which would probably add another $100-300), it would pretty much pay for itself. The benefit is you can see another 300 schools in the process, a cost effective and time saving way to do this.

Of course, with some hard work, you can do this yourself by going on the degree wiki and figuring it out, but I know my time is valuable to me and if I knew about this earlier, I may have gave it a shot. Also, after browsing the site a little more, if you join the National Education Alliance, there are schools that will give you tuition discounts and there are other benefits. I saw WGU gave a 5% discount for the first two semester for new students and there were other schools.

Like I said, you can do this research yourself, but I know with the time I wasted doing all this myself, I wouldve spent the dough. One warning, you may want to ask someone who works there if you will have 300 schools bombarding you with cold-calls. I'm not sure if this is how it works, just caveat emptor. Has anyone here used the service?

Just google search national education alliance counseling.

Happy hunting.

Additional Info: I just found out to become a member costs about $95 to join, but military members and their family are FREE. I think I'm going to join to just get some possible MBA discounts, it won't cost me anything.