Alternative Credit Project closing down

[cookderosa]

This is too bad (even for the Big 3) Saylor offered the cheapest of all credits; a large % of their credit courses where through this program.  Here is the link of courses https://www.saylor.org/credit/#available-courses - if it in in the ACE only column and starts with the prefix of ACPE it is part of this expiring program  

Time to study up and test out on these! We've got one month to earn credits for less than $10 per credit - I know there are people out there up for the challenge! In other words if you need the credit and know the subject - now if the time.  Hopefully Saylor will look to add the ACPE courses under their own approval group

All of the ACP courses were also ACE-recommended, and probably will continue to be so.  This is NOT saying anything about ACE, so nobody should be panicking!  ACP is separate from ACE, but really it's own little world within ACE.

Right - this was more about the target colleges. When ACP received their grant, there was a financial incentive of some kind given to participating programs (like Saylor, Straighterline, etc) as well as colleges. Unlike Straighterline, Saylor is a non-profit, so I would imagine that the reason they initially had mostly ACP courses is because it is EXPENSIVE to obtain ACE credit independently. I have spoken to the director at Saylor many times who has repeatedly told me providing college credit isn't their primary objective- but he has also said they were seeking ACE eval for the courses that will fall through the credit gap once ACP is closed down.

The big 3 weren't part of ACP, but there WERE several colleges that signed up who otherwise don't "accept ACE" as a rule. I have one parent in my Ohio homeschooling group that has a son heading to a target school and is very upset- so really it's like anything... it's a great program if it does what you need it to do - and it certainly did allow non-traditional credit a guaranteed slot on a transcript at traditional colleges. We strongly considered a different (ACP) school for my high school student and ended up changing our mind (thankfully) because that would have been a kick in the teeth. All 3 of my son's transcripts have ACP credit, but it looks like they won't need it.