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Does anyone know for sure if FEMA credits will count towards Applied Professional at Excelsior, All I need is 10 applied professional credits and also which ones they will take, I keep asking but no answer yet.

The fact that no one has answered yet to your many inquiries should tell you something...

Probably because there are very few people, if any, who have paid the rather exhorbitant price to get FEMAs transfered to Excelsior, when there's much cheaper options out there. After all, this forum is dedicated to doing things inexpensively via CLEP, DSST, and so forth. While FEMA credits are great for TESC students, they're horrible cost-wise at EC for the amount of credit you get.

And according to a poster over at DInfo, as of 2007, the answer they received from EC is that you cannot bank FEMAs at TESC to transfer them into EC, they have to go through either FCC or CCC.

Thank you for your correspondence. We currently accept FEMA Independent Study course credits from Clackamus Community College (CCC), and Frederick Community College (FCC). Please note that you will only be able to obtain lower level credit for this course work.The policy to accept these courses from other schools i.e Thomas Edison Community College changed as of 11/1/07.

If you wanted to go through Frederick Community College , the following website provides information regarding the application and fees: http//training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/cc.asp. Please note that not all EMI IS courses have been evaluated, and we can only award credit for those which have been evaluated and transcribed by FCC and CCC. There is a comprehensive listing of such courses at the Frederick Community Colleges Web site under the heading eligible courses.

The link listed in the quote no longer works, but I found a working link at Frederick Community College (FCC) - Emergency Management Study

At $75 per hour, the cost of transcripting 10 FEMA credits would be the equivalent to getting 45 credits through CLEPing, using 5 of the 6 credit tests and 5 of the 3 credit tests at a test center that doesn't have a testing fee.

But in theory, yes, they should be considered Applied Professional credits when transcripted through FCC and sent to Excelsior.