Alpha Numerics For Dummies

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Great thread, Jennifer. I wish it had been available when I was trying to figure things out!

The only thing I would add is related to the part about 200 level classes at TESC. TESC counts ANYTHING from a 4 year university as an upper level class regardless of the number. The following is from an advisor you recommended once. I wrote him because I wanted to 'make sure' and have something in writing. Although it's in response to Florida colleges, it would apply elsewhere.

Saint Petersburg used to be a community/junior college but is now a baccalaureate institution and as such, any courses completed there from the time they became a baccalaureate school would be considered baccalaureate credits, NOT "community/junior college" credits.

This has nothing to do with the course number or "level" of the course (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior). Any and all credits earned at St Petersburg would transfer here as bachelor's level credits whether they carried a course number at the 100, 200, 300 or 400 level.

Florida CC Jax is a community college and any and all credits earned there would transfer here as Community College credits.

Hope that helps.

I think you are misunderstanding what that means. This is TESC's fault IMO for their answer to you, their wording in that answer was crappy. The distinction in your question to the advisor (Todd Siben?) was that you asked if they were considered community college vs 4 year institution, not upper vs lower level. When they said it had nothing to do with the course number of level, this referrs to how they come in (bachelor or cc).

That means that the credits won't count toward the 90 Community College cap because they come from a bachelor level (AKA 4-year) college.

So, ENG101 from a community college counts toward the 90 cap, but ENG101 from St. Petersburg would not.

Basically, we have apples and oranges because they are 2 different issues. ENG101 is still, however, a 100 level course and wouldn't be considered upper level (in-major) no matter where it came from. This can be confused by TESC's policy allowing 2 classes at the 100 level in major, but let's assume you brought in 33 credits from St Petersburg. They were all 100 level. They would NOT all count in major, only 2 classes would. If those same classes were all 200 level, you'd be fine because they are both a) upper level, and b) not exceeding the 90 credit junior/community college cap.

I hope I didn't ruin your day :eek: