08-30-2024, 11:50 AM
(08-28-2024, 01:59 PM)wow Wrote: As a heads up, Sophia science courses will almost certainly not be accepted as prerequisites for medical school. I took Human Biology and it is in no way comparable to a semester of first or second semester bio. It's more akin to a basic Anatomy and Physiology course geared toward healthcare paraprofessionals or people who are just looking to fulfill a science requirement for their degree but are not interested in pursuing it further than that.
Certain courses on Sofia meet the needs of certain health care paraprofessionals and may even be accepted by some nursing programs, but not med school.
Maybe Caribbean medical schools!
Side-tangent: but I just discovered the edX-TESU partnership that transcribes free credits for EdX MicroBachelors courses in an Individual Learning Account (assuming you pay for the courses, of course). Unfortunately in their transcript they won't also cover other sources besides the MicroBachelors, but I've read on here that enrolling in a TECEP allows for credit banking just as well. Considering the fact that Pierpont isn't responding to many emails, I might consider the TECEP route for credit banking, just to have all my alt credits listed in one place.
Some interesting credits include (couldn't find specific course names for most of them):
- Harvard University University Chemistry - 6 UL chemistry credits
- Harvard University Intro Neuroscience - 3 UL biology credits
- IBM Full Stack App Dev - 3 LL Associate Capstone - for associate's degree students
- NYU CS Fundamentals - 3 LL CS credits
- NYU Cybersecurity Fundamentals - 6 LL Intro Cybersecurity and Defensive Security
- NYU Programming and Data Structures - 6 LL C++ Programming and Data Structures
- SNHU Business Analytics Foundations - 6 LL Intro Programming and Principles Statistics (second-year course)
- LSE Statistics Fundamentals - 3 LL Principles Statistics (second-year course), 3 UL statistics credits
- LSE Math and Statistics Fundamentals - 6 LL Calculus I and II, 3 LL Principles Statistics (second-year course)
I've bolded some of the courses that I've found to be pretty hard to find to get done via alt credits. Notably, this would patch up a number of gaps I had in my (theoretical) UMPI cybersecurity transfer program, especially for a second-year LL Intro Stats course, a potential 3 LL Intro to CS course, a data structures course, and Calculus I and II to fit UMPI's 4-credit calc course.
Not sure how the Verizon and financial aid systems at EdX are running now, but I also know that some schools and companies offer free EdX...