BACS/BSBA CIS - Transferring Credits

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TESU has two stages for students: applicant status and full enrollment.

Applicant status begins immediately after you submit your application. This gives you two free evaluations. In theory, this should be a first evaluation of all classes/transcripts and then a second evaluation some weeks or months down the line when you send in more transcripts. In practice, this is often an evaluation of exactly two transcripts. If any of your transcripts are paper ones, TESU typically counts those as a separate evaluation. If all transcripts are electronic, they might evaluate them all at once and only count them as one evaluation. It's tricky.

To remove all ambiguity, it's recommended that students move to full enrollment status as soon as possible. Full enrollment status is achieved by either taking a TESU class (not recommended: too expensive) or paying for a TECEP exam. The $52 Medical Terminology TECEP is all that it takes in order to obtain full enrollment status. You do not have to take the exam. Indeed, for the $52 Medical Terminology exam, we explicitly recommend against taking it! This will allow you to pay for it again in about 12 months if you haven't yet completed your degree. Consider the $52 to be a yearly enrollment fee. Pretty cheap/low-cost, all things considered.

We also advise students to send in transcripts with new classes every month or every other month (and not more frequently than that). This will get those classes onto your TESU transcript "permanently". In the event that TESU stops accepting a certain class, having it already on your transcript doesn't change. But, if you have not yet transferred it to TESU, you're out of luck if acceptance changes. Some students in the past have gotten burned by not transferring in their completed classes often enough.