Bad news, Everybody!

[Maniac Craniac]

(That and ETS has outright said that they don't like their tests being used as a credit evaluation source.)

Wow, that's news to me. On the one hand, it does make sense to me- however, I am having a hard time thinking of a specific reason why this would be so. Best I can think(a shot in the dark guess)- since so many undergraduates with minimal completion of major courses are now taking the exams, the wild success stories we see on forums like this might be a rarity. Maybe most of these people are failing miserably and causing the collective of grad school wannabes to end up with higher percentile scores?

I think that the regional accreditors might be tightening things up on them, and of course it can be worth a little more money for the school (Forcing new people to take a class that costs $900 - the new capstone - sucks, but... )

I have a feeling that this must be it, however, if it really is about accreditation, why so long before the accreditors woke up and finally said something to it? The day may come that the accreditors even put a stop to exam-only degrees, but I think that the model of allowing up to 100% of transfer credit (so long as it is either RA or ACE) is such a viable model that it should hold over time- at least I hope, for the sake of capable, experienced, earnest adults who would be held back otherwise. As for the $$... if Excelsior starts requiring more of their own courses to be taken, it stands to reason that their enrollment fees would drop and possibly offset the financial burden.

Well, it just hit me that I wrote an entire post full of suposition and conjecture, without even the slightest hint of fact to support the whims of my predictions. Sorry- but I would much rather not delete it after typing it all out