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<p>I wish people would focus on the time aspect when it comes to kids taking 4 years out of their lives to earn degrees for which there is no payback.</p>
<p>Regarding the value of Bel’s link, from the article:
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It was last December, and the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay’s holiday break had begun. But Alex Stenner, a sophomore and human biology major there, spent his two weeks off earning three credits from the university. And he did it without attending a single class – at a total cost of $90.
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Stenner spent two weeks studying with Educational Portal’s Psychology 101 course before taking the corresponding CLEP test. He had heard about CLEP when he was in high school and found Educational Portal with an Internet search.
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The course wasn’t easy, said Stenner, and he had to be disciplined to power through the material in two weeks. Students can take substantially longer to master the material. But Stenner wanted to finish before the end of the holidays. He passed the CLEP test on January 2.</p>
<p>Stenner said he has no regrets about not taking the intro psychology class at his university. He values personal connections with professors and his fellow students. But this course would have been taught in a big lecture hall, so according to his cost-benefit analysis, Education Portal was a better investment. </p>
<p>“To me it just doesn’t make sense to pay so much for entry-level courses,” he said.
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<p>So the point of this would be to knock off a bunch of GenEds at a substantial savings and lower the overall cost of education. </p>
<p>It would be similar to an AP process.</p>