Clep after Freshman Year of College?

Test Preparation
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<p>Can I get credit via CLEP exams after my first year of college at most colleges?</p>

<p>Since I'll be doing <em>hopefully</em> 3 majors in very diverse areas, I need to knock out as many credits as I can if I want to attempt to graduate in four years. So, basically if I prepped beforehand for say, accounting, and treated it like a self-study AP and took the test, will full credit be granted?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for any advice. I realize this board is not particularly active, but please post anyways!!!!</p>

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<p>Keep in mind that CLEP is generally for 100-200 level classes, so most students benefit from using CLEP in Freshman/Sophomore years. Check with your school for its policies - sometimes you can find a CLEP acceptance chart on the school’s website with course equivalents listed.</p>

<p>Your question is also addressed in this post:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/clep-exam/792374-can-clep-taken-while-college.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/clep-exam/792374-can-clep-taken-while-college.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Good luck to you!</p>

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<p>^Thanks so much, and that’s a great link!!!</p>

<p>Accounting CLEP, here I (hopefully) come :slight_smile:
(might have to wait until Sophomore year, though)</p>

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<p>Why not work on the Accounting CLEP over the summer? CLEP tests are available all year long and summer is a perfect time to do this if you’re not planning to go to summer school.</p>

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<p>OHKID </p>

<p>Please make sure your school will accept CLEP’s studied for and taken while enrolled at your college, because they may or may not allow it.</p>

<p>Some schools do not like its formally enrolled students to take CLEP’s or even classes at another school. </p>

<p>Please look up the rules for your own particular school about this before you start up on studying.</p>

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<p>^Will do, Mildred. Thanks for the heads up :)</p>

<p>Also, the reason I’d rather not do it this summer is because I think I’m going to try and load up on community college classes to cut my tri-degree costs down. I had a really good accounting class my Junior year, so even if I did attempt CLEP now, the info still wouldn’t be fresh and it would take a little while to re-learn…</p>

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<p>Taking classes at the cc this summer sounds like a good idea. </p>

<p>I brushed up on my accounting (took it 30 years ago and needed to refresh!) using Aleks.com. It was an efficient way to do it. Basically, it’s a self-study tutorial online program.</p>

<p>Just an idea…</p>