Maximizing Sophia courses at COSC

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Yikes! My daughter took her algebra thru ALEKS and that was a struggle for her, but she finally passed! So ALEKS is no longer accepted at the Big 3? It's on her ACE transcript. Please don't let this be so.... She took that course several times before passing!!

Pretty sure it's because of the age of the credits. If your daughter just took it, she should be fine. But I don't know if ALEKS is/will be a "partner" of COSC, though, and that might mean that the credits aren't accepted at COSC but they would still be accepted at TESU or EC. My credits from The Institutes were accepted at TESU even though I took them a couple of years ago. Even if your daughter can't get a degree at COSC, she still has options.

I don’t know that age of credit has anything to do with it. According to the language they use, it’s all about a partnership. Credit acceptance is dependent on COSC’s relationship with ALEKS, and since COSC doesn’t maintain a list, we don’t know what that relationship is.

If someone needs ALEKS credit at COSC, the best thing they can do is reach out to both ALEKS and COSC and ask about it. ALEKS may not be aware of the change, or it could be they worked it out behind the scenes and haven’t posted it to the site yet. We won’t know till someone asks.

You have to remember that while these changes affect the members of this board massively, they don’t affect too many other COSC students. We’re the outliers. It’s not COSC’s priority to set this out nice and neat so we can easily map our degree hacks because it doesn’t affect that many students in the scheme of things. Not that many people go to COSC and even less rely on alternative credits beyond CLEP or AP to graduate. We need to be proactive in determining how this affects our future efforts by reaching out to companies and schools.


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