Determine whether the ABA courses that you took were evaluated and recommended by the American Council on Education's, or ACE, College Recommendation Service, called ACE Credit. ACE Credit is an organization that services higher education executives such as chancellors and presidents. According to ACE Credit, it also "connects workplace learning with colleges and universities by helping adults gain access to academic credit for formal courses and examinations taken outside traditional degree programs."
Find out whether ACE Credit's recommendations apply to your ABA credits. The recommendations only apply to credit earned during or after the fall of 1999. Accordingly, if you earned your credit prior to that time, your course credit is not transferable. Moreover, not every ABA course credit is transferable. Of the courses evaluated, only 12 were recommended for transfer. Visit the ABA's website, Acecredit.ou.edu, for a list of the12 recommended courses.
Refer to the ACE Credit website to see if your College or University is on the list of colleges that agreed to accept ABA credit. The fact that ACE Credit recommended a course does not guarantee its transferability, the matter is ultimately up to each school's discretion. However, schools that agreed to accept ABA credit are listed on the ACE Credit website.
Register for the ACE Credit transcript service. Your school will need an official transcript reflecting your ABA coursework before it can consider accepting the credits. The ACE transcript service provides you with this transcript. The service requires you to register the course with ACE once you have completed it; it will then be added to your transcript. You can order the transcript for yourself or have it sent to your chosen school.
Submit your transcript for review. Submitting your transcript is a required part of obtaining transfer credit; but more than that, it is a means of assisting your school with the decision-making process. Colleges and universities decide whether to accept credits from other institutions based upon the similarities between the two entities' courses. They cannot do this without your transcript.