Excelsior and FEMA

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I inquired to Excelsior for my son about how many FEMA credits they accept if he went for the BSLS degree she stated that...

if the FEMA credits are all he has, we could accept up to 51 credit hours in the applied professional area at the lower level. Please note he must contact Frederick Community College or Clackamas Community College to have the FEMA credit transcripted.

The only thing I think that she forgot about was the 1 credit Information Literacy course which is lower level, so with that I guess they'd actually accept 50 transcribed FEMA credit... if there are that many any.

Just think,

50 possible Applied Professional/Depth FEMA credits
30 possible Arts and Science/Depth GRE credits
30 Arts and Science Clep credits
9 AP or A&S Dantes UL credit
1 Information Literacy

It would be nice it could work...

What confuses me about this statement is that I've seen many counter that Excelsior will only take a certain number of FEMA credits. The Bachelors in Liberal Studies would be able to absorb 50 FEMA courses ONLY if he has 0 credit hours? I wonder why the distinction between those that have FEMA credits and credits from other institutions? Thanks for sharing! If possible when you get the specific breakdown of applied credits from FEMA would you consider posting the results? I'm sure many (including me) would benefit from trying to make sense of the way Excelsior applies FEMA courses. Thanks again and good luck to your son!