Bad News--Excelsior Unofficial Evaluation

[barcotta]

Thank you guys for responding to my post.

Based on what Peace123 stated, I may have just misread the evaluation (not my fault because the eval is confusing). The breakdown should be as follows:

- 6 credits General Education (6)
- 9 credits in Natural Science Math or 3 in Humanities+6 in Math (9)
- 3 credits for Written English Requirement (3)

FOR A TOTAL OF 18...which is what I said I only needed in the beginning.

[FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=3]What threw me off was the Applied Professional or Arts & Sciences saying that I needed 13 credits (technically 12 because I've already taken Info Lit).

That's not what I understand from the reply from Peace123. Despite being an Excelsior grad, it still takes some effort on my part to interpret their categorizations. However, I did not experience anywhere near the angst you have. When I didn't understand exactly how to interpret my evaluation, I just called and asked. I did NOT assume the worst (they didn't take all the credit I thought they would!) and then proceed to play out all of the worst case scenarios as my anger and frustration grew to epic proportions! Why do you do that to yourself???? You're going to needlessly shorten your lifespan and spend that which remains frustrated and angry!

Now, I know you were writing for help with interpretatation, but I'm going to insert just one small nugget of unsolicited advice:

If you find yourself at an impasse (in anything) because you have missing or unclear information--STOP. Stop right there and proceed to gather the remaining information and/or clarify the info you have. THEN complete your analysis. I see no benefit whatsoever in attempting to complete your analysis based on unfavorable and uninformed assumptions--unless your are TRYING to drive yourself crazy and shorten your life.

Based on everything I know and have read, it looks to me like you have 6 gen ed credit hours remaining to complete--3 of which are your WER. After that you have 13 applied professional credit hours to complete (one of which is the IL), which could also be just extra arts and sciences. It would be that simple except that Excelsior provides many distribution options/requirements that must be taken into account--so they provided that info as well. However, it looks to me like all that means to you is that you have to make sure you choose the correct 3 credit course/exam to complete your gen ed requirements.

Now, that could be wrong or incomplete as well, but I would start there and see how close it is. I bet it's at least close.

As you've seen in Real Estate, every discipline has its language--and often times you will find that their are different dialects spoken by the various institutions in any given discipline. I have worked with telecom companies for most of my life, and it took me a while to realize that a T1, DS1, dedicated line, and point-to-point circuit are all synonymous. In the meantime, I just had to ask and look things up. Once you get a few questions answered, I predict your degree requirement navigation will be much easier.

Take it easy on yourself and save your brain cells for studying--and good luck!