All ALEKS stat courses duplicate at TESC

[cookderosa]

Ok just got a final answer from the Head of Advisement or as nj295 mentioned as the doctor guy. He said unfortunately, Stats is Stats, those infamous words.

In my opinion, for all those currently taking ALEKS courses for credit at TESC I suggest you put all the courses on your Academic Evaluation now before they make further changes. It's the only recourse you have against policy changes. This will probably save you some grief. I know when I first started reading these ALEKS threads all 3 Stat classes didn't duplicate but now you can only get credit for 1 of the 3. It's still a great way to get credits regardless but as it stands now, 15 credits is the max for ALEKS courses without duplication but unfortunately that can change like the wind at TESC.

Oh well I guess I will go to Plan B for myself which would be the FEMA route.

I'd agree.

After giving this a little thought- I have decided NO ONE should ever take business stats for TESC unless it's required by title for your degree plan- like a business major. Why? Because Intro stats and behavior stats are both considered math classes. If you fill up on math, you over flow into gen ed electives. If you fill up on those, you over flow into free electives. Business stats, on the other hand, is just like FEMA- it's going to come in as a free elective. So, why bother take it at all?

Well, if it were me, and if you really can rock out business stats immediately after intro stats (significant overlap) I think a person SHOULD go ahead and do it just to log on the ACE transcript. You NEVER KNOW when you might need a class down the road. Maybe some day you apply for a business degree and that's a required class or prereq- bam! You have it on your ACE transcript and you can send it onto another college for whatever reason. I have noticed a lot of MBA programs want stats....so I guess you just never know, couldn't hurt- and it's (maybe) free, so go for it. Even if "stats is stats" at TESC, business classes are never liberal arts classes no matter where you go.

*the "Dr. Guy" is Dr. Keel- if you have a chance to talk to him, you can trust what he says.