09-12-2007, 08:11 PM
Welcome to the board! 
I started out as a Psychology major with Excelsior, but later switched to Liberal Studies because it was a quicker rout for me to finish my degree, especially not having to take statistics. Are you a BPA? I am a CBPO job applicant (just the background pending) and am scrambling to get done before I get shipped off to FLETC so I can start at a 7.
Anyway...
One big difference between TESC and Excelsior is that Excelsior will require at least 30 upper level (300-400 level) credits, while TESC considers anything 200 level and above to be upper level. Many DANTES and I think all CLEPS are considered lower level at Excelsior, so I used six of Excelsior's upper level liberal arts exams and a DANTES upper level history exam to fulfill their upper level liberal arts requirement of 21 credits. Many people use the ECE psych exams to fulfill that requirement because IC covers those topics.
I am not sure it is possible to completely test out of any majors other than Liberal Studies at this time with Excelsior. (Someone please correct me if I am wrong!) Excelsior changed the psych major this year to additionally require History & Systems and Biological Psychology courses, which are not testable that I am aware of. A Criminal Justice degree also looks impossible to completely test out of, although Excelsior looks like they offer many of the courses themselves. I am not terribly familiar with TESC and their programs, but they also have many psychology exams, so testing out of their Psychology major requirements may be possible, although they are not currently covered by IC.
If a quick degree is what you want, then I would apply to both TESC and Excelsior under the Liberal Studies programs and see what each will require for degree completion.
Anyway, good luck, and hopefully there will be some TESC students around to enlighten us about the TESC programs.
I started out as a Psychology major with Excelsior, but later switched to Liberal Studies because it was a quicker rout for me to finish my degree, especially not having to take statistics. Are you a BPA? I am a CBPO job applicant (just the background pending) and am scrambling to get done before I get shipped off to FLETC so I can start at a 7.
Anyway...One big difference between TESC and Excelsior is that Excelsior will require at least 30 upper level (300-400 level) credits, while TESC considers anything 200 level and above to be upper level. Many DANTES and I think all CLEPS are considered lower level at Excelsior, so I used six of Excelsior's upper level liberal arts exams and a DANTES upper level history exam to fulfill their upper level liberal arts requirement of 21 credits. Many people use the ECE psych exams to fulfill that requirement because IC covers those topics.
I am not sure it is possible to completely test out of any majors other than Liberal Studies at this time with Excelsior. (Someone please correct me if I am wrong!) Excelsior changed the psych major this year to additionally require History & Systems and Biological Psychology courses, which are not testable that I am aware of. A Criminal Justice degree also looks impossible to completely test out of, although Excelsior looks like they offer many of the courses themselves. I am not terribly familiar with TESC and their programs, but they also have many psychology exams, so testing out of their Psychology major requirements may be possible, although they are not currently covered by IC.
If a quick degree is what you want, then I would apply to both TESC and Excelsior under the Liberal Studies programs and see what each will require for degree completion.
Anyway, good luck, and hopefully there will be some TESC students around to enlighten us about the TESC programs.
[COLOR="Navy"]BS Liberal Arts
Excelsior College
MS Psychology
California Coast University[/color]
Excelsior College
MS Psychology
California Coast University[/color]
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