I am a full-time rising senior at Villanova plan on sitting for the New York State CPA exam within the next year or so. I need 150 credit hours from a “regionally accredited four year college or university” as specifically explained on the NYS CPA exam website to take the exam. In an effort to save money, I took the Introductory Sociology CLEP exam in August 2014 to help get myself to that requirement. Villanova only accepts CLEP credit for part-time students and therefore will not accept my test for credits at this time. With this in mind, I called SUNY at Stony Brook to confirm that although I wasn’t enrolled at the institution that I would be able send the scores to them for credit. The person who I spoke to told me that I would be able to do that. Fast forward to today to where I have now been told by Stony Brook that they cannot accept my test for credits since I have never taken a course at the university (exactly what I had anticipated and made sure to confirm with the school as well as with CLEP beforehand). I can send my CLEP scores to any other school, but I want to make sure that the school will actually accept the credits even though I am not and have never been enrolled there.
So my question is this: What schools do any of you know of that would accept a satisfactory CLEP exam score for credit hours without requiring previous/current enrollment at the school? If this isn’t possible anywhere, would it be possible that I have the scores sent to Villanova as a part-time student after I graduate so they would appear on my transcript eventually? If none of this is possible, does anyone have any other ideas for this exam to eventually count for CPA-accepted credit hours? Thanks!