Excelsior: We'll tell you if you enroll

[gcalvin]

That doesn't sound terribly unreasonable to me. If you took a course called Information Literacy at a community college, then it's a pretty safe bet that it will fulfill your Excelsior IL requirement. By "pretty safe" I mean higher than 95% but that's just my guess. I've never heard of Excelsior throwing out a community college IL course, but like Excelsior, I don't know anything about the particular course you took or the CC where you took it. They'll have to do a little research, and they're not going to do that "on spec" -- they'll only do it if you enroll.

So other than Information Literacy, how do things look? If you end up having to re-take IL at Excelsior ($300 and two days work if you take your time doing it) would that make it a worse deal than your alternatives? Factor that into your decision making, make your call, then don't look back.

If you're thinking "they just want to squeeze me for a little more money" then all I can say is that I've never known Excelsior to be like that. In my time with Excelsior, there have been no hidden fees and no surprise requirements. The fact that they really do investigate and evaluate courses that they haven't already evaluated should actually give you some comfort. It means that they take their role seriously. It means that their regional accreditation stands for something.

-Gary-