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

[sanantone]

I don't think there is a school that will help you plan future transfer credits before you enroll. That's a waste of resources, and it's not what makes the Big 3 the Big 3.

That wasn't the part of the conversation that made me wonder about the Bug 3 designation, it was the "Since the degree is through Excelsior College, the degree programs credits are going to be taken with us."

But yes, what you say makes sense. It has just been very frustrating with this particular advisor, who told me earlier to STOP taking courses from study.com so I "don't waste my energy and money," apply to the school, and *then* they could tell me the study.com course equivalents so I could see if any applied toward the credits I need so I could "decide if Excelsior is a good fit"—which implied they would at least tell me the Study.com equivalents before enrolling.

Is it correct that signing an enrollment agreement is signing a contract and obligates me financially to Excelsior? Because she's also said that in separate conversations. If it's not true, nothing she says is correct and Excelsior is more like the other Big 3, and I can go ahead and enroll and stop worrying about the collections man coming after me if the degree plan they outline for me is too costly.

I'm starting to wonder if the admissions counselors get paid on commission.

Unlike COSC and TESU, Excelsior doesn't put much information out there about how ACE credits will transfer. For the degree you're wanting, Study.com doesn't really offer anything you couldn't get through CLEP, DSST, Uexcel, or Straighterline. You can find the equivalents for those.

Admissions counselors are notoriously poorly-trained. They have performance measures, but it's illegal to pay them commission. They only need to know enough to convince students to enroll.