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100 Transfer Students Processed in 17 Hours by One Counselor
November 29, 2010
A college asked us to demonstrate that our system truly is the fastest degree auditing system of its kind. They sent 100 adult learners with transfer courses, military training and college exams to consider.
In only 17 hours time, every one of the students were accurately processed, with educational assessments and degree plans created for the college, all done by one counselor.
CurrentNews:
More Than 400,000 Assessments & Degree Plans Sent to Students
November 29, 2010
We've reached another milestone: More than 400,000 Comprehensive Education Assessments and Degree Plans from hundreds of colleges have been created with our state-of-the-art systems and sent to students across the nation!
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Visit Our New and Revised Websites
We recently implemented the latest web development technology to significantly change the layout and content of our websites. Please take a few minuted to check them out:
Our Individual Student Support website: www.MyLifeMyDegree.com For military members & veterans, visit: www.MilitaryFriendlyDegrees.us
Our Corporation / Government Agency Support website: www.CollegeCounselingCenter.org
AutoDP is not a commercial off-the-shelf system, but will be custom-made for your college or university. Accuracy in streaming of data is one of our top priorities when building in the data in the system for your college or university. When we build a system for a college or university, we create degree plan templates for every undergraduate or graduate degree or certificate that you offer, assigning the appropriate academic codes to each requirement in the curricula. Then we build every course offered by the college in the system, embedding four hidden layers of academic codes to each. This enables the courses to be easily added to a student record wherein they can be instantly streamed into your degree plans, placing themselves in the curricula, regardless of the major program of study selected. If the curriculum for the degree selected does not specifically require some of the courses streamed in, those courses will seek the most logical elective category for consideration.
Others have tried to emulate our patented process, but none have succeeded in creating as exacting a process as ours. (See the Dare to Compare page on this site.) How can we be so confident that AutoDP is the best degree auditing process and system in existence? Because our system has been used to create more than 373,000 assessments and degree plans for students and our participating colleges and universities have resoundingly praised our support. We have received letters of support from some of our most sought after colleges attesting to an accuracy rate of around 95%.
Of course, there are always instances when advisors need to rearrange the courses streamed into a degree. Take for example, if a student has taken Principles of Biology and Microbiology as a pre-med student, then decided to change majors to seek a degree in Business Administration. When the student's assessment was originally streamed into the pre-med degree plan, the Principles of Biology course found its requirement in the curricula, as did the Microbiology as a required subject. However, now that the student has changed majors, the Business Administration degree does not specifically require Principles of Biology or Microbiology, but does require 4 semester hours in a Natural Science Electives and 12 semester hours in Liberal Arts Electives. The AutoDP system would scan the codes and see that each of the two courses in question are coded for their respective subjects, as well as being a Natural Science Elective and a Liberal Arts Elective. When the credits stream into the Business Administration degree, the Microbiology course (starting with an "M") would land in the Natural Science Elective of the degree, while Principles of Biology (starting with a "P") would locate in the Liberal Arts Electives requirement of the degree. How then, can the credit be relocated? With AutoDP, the courses can be rearranged in just a few seconds using our convenient drag-and-drop functionality (see the image below).
When ACE recommended credit is streamed into the degree plan, a standard set of codes is used to define the target subjects in the curricula of degrees. We will pre-code these and provide the listing for your academic experts to review. If, as time progresses, you notice a subject that automatically streams into one subject, but you would prefer it to stream into another, drag-and-drop the course for the individual being processed. Then, to prevent the need for doing this again in the future, recode the subject so it will target the curricula requirement you desire. This only takes seconds to accomplish. For example, the college in the example below allows Basic AC/DC Theory as a Natural Science elective, as they teach electricity as a Physics elective. Your college or university may want to have the subject stream to technical electives or free electives. No problem. This can be done easily with AutoDP.
You may notice that some of the data feeds that we receive use all capital letters, such as the DSST examinations in the image above, while others use both lower and upper case letters. Not to worry. When these appear on the degree plan for the student to read, the system is designed to convert all to capital lettering. Take for example, the curriculum requirement for Humanities above. Note how all four credit lines are presented in the printout for the student in all caps:
Taking it to the next level:
In the example above, you see that the college credit that has been applied remained in its original form, as it came from its source. The credit from the military training in Business Communications is at the top, followed by a DSST test that rendered credit in Art, with a couple of transfer courses from a state university beneath it. If your college or university prefers to keep the sources of transfer credit in their pure form, this may be perfect for you to consider. After all, the requirement on the degree that is being fulfilled is listed in bold font above each section on the degree plan, so intent of the application of the credit in transfer is clear. However, many of our colleges and universities prefer to show a direct articulation of each course digitally streamed into their degrees to the equivalent course at their institution, even in the cases of electives in their degrees.
With our latest version of this incredible system, we embed codes into hundreds of thousands of subjects so that they automatically reflect the course equivalence at the college or university accepting the credit in transfer. We also design the system so that it automatically does the same for future courses accepted in transfer for students that will be transferring to the college or university. In these cases, both the source of the credit (as shown in the examples above) and the course equivalence are viewed by the college and the student on the degree plans.
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