Excelsior general Education Credits

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Hi Im am looking at taking some online courses at my community college,to save some money to apply for Excelsior Rn program this summer! Now I was looking at my information sheet for General Education Requirements for the nursing program,and I was looking at my CC online courses,some of them are different names! I was going to register tonight,and get it out of the way! Or should I wait and talk to Excelsior on Wednesday and see what classes they want!

Spottedskunk

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I found that Excelsior is pretty generous in accepting courses. You should be able to determine by reading the course description whether or not it meets one of the requirements. Course names often are different across different institutions. One thing you should do: keep a copy of the current college catalog that covers the courses you are taking. You never know when you might be required to provide the course descriptions in the future.

You might want to wait until Wednesday and ok the courses with an EC advisor if the course is not one of the run of the mill courses, like English 101 or Chem 101. The advisor will give you the right info. Make sure you have the course description in front of you when you call. Good luck.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, LTC, Rehab, HH.

Hey, you can CLEP or DANTES out of many courses. Sociology, Ethics, World REligions, Lifespan, the list is long. Your able to take it at most community colleges, and it is way cheaper.

You can clep out of 3 to 4 classes for the price of one at EC(or any college). It is the greatest thing since sliced bread!!!!!!! I'm such a dork.........

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
You can clep out of 3 to 4 classes for the price of one at EC(or any college). It is the greatest thing since sliced bread!!!!!!! I'm such a dork.........

Yeah, but we love you anyway. :D

More info on CLEP is here: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/clep/about.html

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Specializes in Med-Surg, LTC, Rehab, HH.

Oh, I miss you!!! :icon_hug:

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
Oh, I miss you!!! :icon_hug:

Miss you, too!! :icon_hug: We really need to take a trip together when we're all done. The Florida Keys sound nice and toasty right about now ... :D

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Specializes in Med-Surg, LTC, Rehab, HH.

That sounds great!! We'll start planning after our lovely "weekends" are over....and Ollie too!

Hey, did you need a CLEP done??? I still have the instacert, I am going to cancel it the 1st of February.

Talk to you later!! Dont work too hard!!:mad:

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

I'm going to take HG&D today! I'm sure I'll be done with Soc by Feb. 1st. :)

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Lunah PLEASE PLEASE post on HG&D and exactly what the test consists of because I know you got all the questions right!!!!!!!

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

LOL! You crack me up. :) Actually, I can't take it until Wednesday afternoon because the local uni requires two days' notice to register. So after Wednesday afternoon, I'll definitely let you know how it went! :)

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Specializes in ICU, PICC Nurse, Nursing Supervisor.

for all those wondering about information literacy....it's dumb. i took it in about 3 hours, mind you it is scheduled for all semester. for me that was $100 dollar a hour course...expensive just to be able to graduate. i have 115 college hours + you would think they would recognize that and realize that i know about digging up info...

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

I feel your pain ... I had more than 130 credits before starting EC! I was like, come on ...

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