<p>Lots of ancient history!</p>
<p>The CLEP exams traditionally were taken by students who were enrolled at their own home-state public institutions, and local not terribly famous private institutions. The AP exams began as a way for students from top private high schools to get out of intro level courses at Ivy and other top private universities. In other words, they served similar purposes, but in very different markets. Back in the last century, lots if my friends took a bunch of CLEP exams during freshman orientation before choosing classes at their colleges.</p>
<p>CLEP doesn’t get a lot of love here at CC because many of the people here aren’t targeting the colleges and universities that are most generous with CLEP credit, and because many if the students here are already loaded up with AP courses and expect a ton of AP credit.</p>
<p>Happykid earned 12 credits in her other language with a CLEP exam, thereby more than fulfilling the humanities requirement at her CC. Cheapest 12 credits she’ll ever earn. Unfortunately, the U she transferred to doesn’t award credit for CLEP language exams, so she will have to take their placement exam if she wants to take a literature class in that language.</p>