To the Newbies that think Penn Foster courses are a cake walk...

[alzee]

I'm not sure where to put this, so I figure this is a decent place for now...

The response I got from advising today appears to be the same "canned" response from the assistant dean that everyone else received, but until now, I did not notice an important bit of phrasing in that message. Bolding by me:

As of today, the Strategic Business Management course from Penn Foster is still transferrable and does meet our Strategic Management core course requirement. However, the transferability of capstone courses is under review and the current policy of accepting capstone courses in transfer may change in the near future (if I had to guess, I would say July 1, 2016, but that is not official). If you are registered for the course or are taking the course before the policy changes, you would be permitted to transfer the course in. However, if you take the course after the policy changes, you would need to take the course through Thomas Edison State University, not Penn Foster. My best advice to you would be contact us to make sure we are still taking the course in transfer before registering. You can contact me directly.

This means that it does NOT have to be completed by July 1. There's no need to "rush", just get registered or start before then and you should be fine it seems, even if you take the full 8-12 weeks to finish.