Posted on Aug 29, 2019
1LT Alexander W.
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I’m currently going through traditional Army National Guard OCS. I haven’t seen any obtained college credits so far on my Joint Services Transcript however.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
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Honestly, you have to ask your college. Your JST will show your military schools. It is up to your college to translate that into college credit. For some OBVIOUS parallels, JST may recommend a college similarity, but it is still up to the college to decide whether or not they grant credit, and what credit they will grant.

For instance: I went to Human Intelligence Collector school. My college at the time chose to grant me credit for "applied psychology." When I transferred, my new college took that applied psych credit and allowed it to fulfill a intro to psych slot in the core curriculum. Either school could have said that the training didn't meet their specific credentialing requirements, and tje first school could have given me nothing, the second could have given me only elective transfer credit.
At the end of the day, the school giving you credit has to make thw call foe themselves as to what standard you have met and whether that standard fulfills the school's requirements.
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Robert Coulter
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Yes, it would make sense to do so, thanks for the reply.
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Barbara Owens
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I just asked my college about this point and they explained to me how this stuff works. I don't think you can get this information from other additional sources. You know, we can use them while studying to get ready for some of our tasks, but if we are talking especially about such college joining questions, it's pretty hard to understand by yourself. It's just advice for other people who have this question now - just ask it people who are responsible for it.
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Barbara Owens
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[quote] I just asked my college about this point and they explained to me how this stuff works. I don't think you can get this information from other additional sources. You know, we can use them while studying to get ready for some of our tasks, (for example, I used https://eduzaurus.com/free-essay-samples/analysis-of-just-walk-on-by-black-men-and-public-space-by-brent-staples/ ) but if we are talking especially about such college joining questions, it's pretty hard to understand by yourself. It's just advice for other people who have this question now - just ask it people who are responsible for it. [/quote]

Okay now I find out OCS isn't a college credit course
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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As far as I know OCS is never was a college credit course.
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In my experience, almost none of your military education courses are worth anything at college. The only exception being that they will some times let you substitute some military education for electives, PE and other such courses. If anyone else has had differing experiences, please post.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
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I had almost my full Bachelor degree completed when I retired - 162 credits worth. I took exactly one college course along the way. Of course not ALL of my credits were able to be applied to my degree, but all I had left were a few GenEds (histories, literature, sciences, humanities, a math) and the capstone course. All of my other core classes, as well as all of the classes in my major were JST'd.
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