Delayed Security Clearance and College Credit.

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Permalink Reply by Navy Dads Co-Admin Tom on April 30, 2017 at 4:00pm

Why would he lose his accrued credits???

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Permalink Reply by Anish Patel on April 30, 2017 at 4:39pm

Because as per law your SAT, ACT, College credits are valid for 6 years only from the time the tests were taken to the best of my knowledge. Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by NavyDads CoAdmin Jim Gramza on May 1, 2017 at 5:50am

Doesn't sound right to me, but if you've done the research, then you should know. I would say to go back and talk to his recruiter.

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Permalink Reply by Navy Dads Co-Admin Tom on May 1, 2017 at 10:40am

I know of no such law....

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Permalink Reply by Anish Patel on May 1, 2017 at 10:50am

Will do that. Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by Margaret Clayton on May 1, 2017 at 11:14am

He does not need to lose everything.  Does he have enough credits to build a general education AA?  If so, he can do this through the Navy college programs once he hits the fleet.  That's what I did with mine.  After one year at his first command, he can potentially enroll in one of many colleges with free Navy tuition assistance, transfer many of his credits, and preserve his credits as a continuing student.  Essentially, he can reset the clock on those credits by either getting them into a degree which can be used to build other degrees, or by becoming a transfer student.  While it is incredibly difficult for a busy nuke to complete a degree while active duty, it is not impossible to make moves to protect what they have already earned.  

I also believe the Navy can set them up to retake the ACT/SAT again for free.  I never took the ACT a second time after 1977, because I rolled my credits into an AA.  It was universally accepted after that, turned it into a BS after I separated from active duty, which became the building block for more education via the VA.  Whee. 

http://www.navycollege.navy.mil/

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Permalink Reply by Anish Patel on May 1, 2017 at 11:22am

This is great to know. I will inform him and ask him to do more research on this. Thank you very much.
 

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Permalink Reply by James D Houser on May 4, 2017 at 12:42pm

I can understand your frustration.  Our son had two years of college and was in DEP for 15 months before going to boot camp.  We all learned a lot through that process and I would encourage your son to keep asking questions and to be in regular contact with both his recruiter and his nuke recruiter.  One thing our son was encouraged to do was take a class like in electronics to not loose his study skills.  (He didn't and now that he is in A School probably wishes he had...)

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Permalink Reply by Anish Patel on May 5, 2017 at 9:49am

Thank you.


James D Houser said:

I can understand your frustration.  Our son had two years of college and was in DEP for 15 months before going to boot camp.  We all learned a lot through that process and I would encourage your son to keep asking questions and to be in regular contact with both his recruiter and his nuke recruiter.  One thing our son was encouraged to do was take a class like in electronics to not loose his study skills.  (He didn't and now that he is in A School probably wishes he had...)

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