Getting credit for English Comp

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<p>S is a college junior. He was homeschooled and took about 40 credit hours dual-credit at the cc. He didn't do his English at the cc and the plan was for him to CLEP out of English (he's at a state univ.).</p>

<p>So last year he took the CLEP English comp with essay and he didn't pass the essay. This kid is a great writer, and I am floored. He said they wouldn't regrade it because it had been graded by a person, not a machine. He just got back a research paper in a 400 level economics class on which he received a score of 100. Almost all of his college papers have gotten A's. He should have easily passed a CLEP test essay.</p>

<p>He didn't know that he didn't pass the test for quite some time. He assumed he passed it, and no one contacted him with his score. Then, when he was reviewing his transcript, he realized he didn't have credit for the course. </p>

<p>I told him to just retake the CLEP but this time to look over a study manual about the essay in case there was something they were looking for that he was missing. He called to set it up, and they told him he wasn't eligible to take the CLEP test because he now has more than 90 hours. He is also not eligible to register for freshman English comp because he has too many hours.</p>

<p>He could register for it at the cc and do it by distance learning next semester, but what a waste of time and money (his tuition at the university is covered by a scholarship)! Can anyone think of a way that he might be able to get the college to award him credit just based on the fact that he can demonstrate competence in English composition?</p>

<p>As a little aside....of the 40 hours he took at the cc, many of them were not transferrable to his major. He was doing them as high school classes, so he had college algebra, trig, and pre-cal for instance that were not eligible to be used for his math requirement at the univ. So yes, he has over 90 hours, but he still needs more than 30 hours to graduate (in addition to 12 hours of ROTC classes that he has to take for his scholarship).</p>

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<p>I can't speak for the other courses, but in my college you couldn't get credit for any math course easier than Calculus 1 - they did teach a pre-calc course, but it was considered remedial math. Sorry about the English essay, I can't think of a solution. The first time I took the architecture design exam one grader gave me a zero and the other a 3 out of 4. I'm still scratching my head over that first grader. I do know of cases on our ELA tests where a good essay that doesn't answer the question will get a zero. Perhaps something like that happened to your son?</p>