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I am hearing conflicting reports on CLEP credit. JP the Great University as well as our state colleges seem happy to accept CLEP credit as long as the score is adequate. But here is a question for anyone who has actually had a child use CLEP for college credit: can they only be used for elective credit or can they be used for pre-requisiste requirements?
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Every college is different as to what they accept and how much credit they give. Many colleges have a page on their website giving their CLEP credit information. For others you need to call and ask specifically what is accepted.
One general statement I can make is that liberal arts/core curriculum colleges (including many in the Newman Guide) do not accept many (if any?) CLEP credits - I would certainly call these.
Ditto the above for dual enrollment cc courses.
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We haven't used it (yet -- my son is prepping to take the German CLEP eventually), but I do have friends whose kids have entered college as juniors, based on credits earned via CLEP. As Marilyn said, everything really depends on a particular school's readiness to accept CLEP scores as substitutes for classes taken.
One student I know of is at the University of San Francisco, for example, as a pre-med student. He entered with something crazy like 30 hours' worth of credits -- I don't know how many the school actually accepted, but he did enter with junior status. I understand that he was able to knock out a lot of requirements. Other schools which want you to do their particular core program -- UD, for example-- are less ready to accept CLEP or other outside credits for core requirements (though my daughter at UD was able to transfer dual-enrollment credits to satisfy her language requirement, so it's not that they won't take anything).
As Marilyn notes, it's worth finding out from colleges your child is interested in what their policy regarding the CLEP is. I have friends who bank on having their children do 2-3 years' worth of college via CLEP, to save money and avoid debt, which is a totally understandable motivation, but my hunch is that this *could* backfire -- be a lot of time and effort wasted on credits that don't transfer consistently if at all -- and/or unnecessarily limit college options to those schools which will accept a lot of those credits. That's maybe a side issue to what you were asking, but it's definitely worth it, I think, to start with colleges you're actually interested in and what they're willing to accept, and plan accordingly.
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Thanks ladies. One thing I find annoying is that you can get 2 different answers from 2 different people at the same college! Honestly, sometimes I think you can push for things. It is a tough call how to best get our kids ready for college--CLEP, AP Community College. I imagine for us it will be a combination of all 3. Thanks, keep any other experiences coming
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I am putting a few links here to some Catholic colleges, state, and one small private (small Benedictine school though unclear how orthodox so I am calling it private). I have found few schools who do not accept CLEP though they accept it differently--some for particular general eds/electives. Some do not accept Math or English CLEP, some indicate you can only have so many hours (less than 30) of AP/CLEP type classes combined. So ultimately you just need to check out your individual college I guess:
http://www1.ben.edu/advising/documentation/universal/CLEP_ex ams%20_list.pdf
http://www2.benedictine.edu/benedictine.aspx?pgID=1079
http://www.belmontabbeycollege.edu/admissions/pdf/ib-ap-awar d-credits.pdf
http://www.uwsp.edu/admissions/Pages/AdmissionsInfo/CLEP.asp x
http://www.admissions.wisc.edu/APIB.php
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Marilyn--I also think you were refering to some of the "Great Books" or liberal arts colleges like St. Thomas in California and I think you are right that they probably would not accept CLEP but could not find that out on their website. Though the other colleges on the guide--Benedictine, Belmont Abby..--do.
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It's surprising and worth asking at any college. Sometimes they don't post it because it varies.
For example they might not accept a history CLEP towards a history degree, but for a science degree they will.
Or they might have an additional essay component they want you to take.
That can also contribute to getting different answers from different departments.
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Ladies--My son is taking his first CLEP test tomorrow. He is a junior, does it make sense to put down any colleges that it should be sent to at this point or to just worry about that later? Thanks.
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Worry about it later. :)
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Thanks for the quick answer Martha. As an aside I finally finished my schedules for the year today and feel so relieved. Yes school can (and has) started before when I was not prepared but it is so nice to have my plan clear before we jump in--event hough it will not go that way it is still nice  .
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I'd say take the clep. But don't worry too much about wether a college he ends up at will take it. One things is it is nice money wise to clep out of classes. But another way is - often the classes kids test out of are good GPA boosters. My ds goes to Purdue which ended up on a list as the 2nd hardest grading school - they grade tough! My ds is glad he didn't test out of any classes - he is SOOO thankful to boost his GPA with some of them that he would have. THat said it can work the other way - if they can test out of a class they think would be hard then go for it. DS's history, english, speech were definite GPA boosters!
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