Is my Excelsior admissions counselor wrong, or is Excelsior no longer "Big 3"?

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Sounds like the same old thing that TESU used to do where the advisers at the school word their answers assuming that OF COURSE you''ll be taking everything from them. You can tell at the point where the adviser assumes that "test out" means a UEXCEL exam, therefore if there isn't a UEXCEL available you "must" be planning to take it as a regular online course.

I doubt they've actually changed their policies, it's just that they won't HELP you plan outside courses.

Thank you!

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Thank you. Every time I talk to this admissions counselor, I feel like I am banging my head against a wall. I'm hoping it's just her.

Have they been accepting any study.com etc courses toward the Natural Sciences major?

My hand-twisting over all of this is that their tuition is relatively high compared to JC/CC and the MOOC options. I do not want to pay $450 per credit if I can pay less elsewhere for an equivalent course. I was also hoping to get any courses I want to take from other places approved ahead of time so I'm not wasting tuition—in fact, that's what my admissions counselor initially told me would happen after I applied ... but now she's pushed it back to enrollment.

Where are you in your degree?

I have a bachelor's in an unrelated field, so most of my non-major requirements would be filled that way. As for science courses I've taken and finished (not at my previous degree-granting institution), none would apply toward the major at Excelsior because I took them too long ago (they have a cap for courses that will transfer to the sciences—I think it's 10 years?) or because I took them as non-credit, thinking I didn't need them because I already had a degree (how times have changed). So I was hoping to burn through as many Study.com bio courses as possible, as I don't really want to spend the tuition on courses where I already know half the material.

The community college courses I'm taking this quarter (starting in a week) are Earth Science and Statistics. I've enrolled in Evolutionary Biology, Pathophysiology, and a 200-level course called Critical Thinking and Analysis in the Sciences for next semester.

Was also looking at NMJC as a possible source of lab credits.

I am, of course, looking at the other schools. But COSC's is a concentration in a General Studies degree, and TESU's specific degree requirements and residential fee would make it $3-4000 more than Excelsior (assuming they both allow the same amount of courses to transfer in).

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Sounds like the same old thing that TESU used to do where the advisers at the school word their answers assuming that OF COURSE you''ll be taking everything from them. You can tell at the point where the adviser assumes that "test out" means a UEXCEL exam, therefore if there isn't a UEXCEL available you "must" be planning to take it as a regular online course.

I doubt they've actually changed their policies, it's just that they won't HELP you plan outside courses.

Thanks for the input. I wish there was some translation machine I could use when talking to them so I could get *real* answers.