| When my sons were 15 and 18, we decided to try to | | | | that would transfer into the university for their degree. |
| earn some college credit using CLEP exams. We | | | | However, it also meant that my boys didn't actually |
| thought this would help defer college costs and also | | | | start the university with an AA degree. If you don't |
| make our time at community college (dual enrollment) | | | | start the university with an AA degree, then there are |
| more productive. Surprisingly, we discovered that | | | | certain prerequisite course that you have to take. My |
| sometimes community colleges accepted fewer CLEP | | | | kids are required to take 6 prerequisite classes at the |
| exams than 4 year universities. In our case, the | | | | university instead of the 3 prerequisite classes they |
| university we were aiming for would accept a year's | | | | would have been required if they had an AA degree. |
| worth of credit by CLEP, but our local community | | | | That will vary depending on the university you are |
| college only accepted two CLEP exams. That meant | | | | considering. |
| that we couldn't combine CLEP and dual enrollment to | | | | If they had gotten an AA degree from community |
| make a AA degree. | | | | college, then there were some classes they would |
| What we did instead was to very carefully pick and | | | | have had to take that I didn't want for them. Like |
| choose classes from the community college that were | | | | diversity classes with controversial content. I'm glad we |
| perfect matches for our first choice university. In other | | | | didn't go that route. I had to be really careful about my |
| words, some math courses transferred and some | | | | 15 yo started college, so we didn't expose him to too |
| didn't, and we were careful to choose only classes | | | | much adult content. |