Warning - Criminal Justice DSST not transferring to TESC anymore

[cooperalex2004]

Hi Bricabrac,

TESC said they will grant 0 credits unless they get official score papers from DSST matching ACE's credit recommendation. I tried to explain that I only needed three credits, not six, but they said they were bound by ACE (for this test at least) and couldn't do anything. It's either 0 or 6 credits to them. I have written the registrar to see if I get a different answer and I wrote Prometric as well. We will see what they tell me later. This could affect a lot of TESC students who want to take Criminal Justice. Why hasn't DSST updated their information about this test?

Prometric is showing it as six credits on their factsheet and website (http://getcollegecredit.com/assets/pdf/d...ustice.pdf). The final decision on transfer is always up to the school though. TESC is still showing it on their site for three credits so I'd expect they would follow that at minimum (DANTES). I never took that exam but would add all of the DSST exams I took were three credits so this is new for me. Since it is on the TESC website I'd say you can point that out to them and then if they say no you can ask when this was changed and by whom. Talking anymore to Prometric won't help as they don't award credit.

As for my experience, I've seen TESC following their guide pretty closely and even making exceptions. If they insist on not following their own guide you can file an appeal. TESC's guide is likely based on the old exam (prior to 1/1/2013) which was graded with a 49 to pass and worth three credits. If you get the right person on the phone hopefully they can access the ACE guide and change between the two date periods to see this. Now that it has changed they are confused.