How do you know about CLEP?

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Thought this may be a good thread to bump.

I learned about CLEP a couple years ago when I did a research project on college debt. That led into finding cheaper means to get through college, and of course CLEP looked pretty attractive.

Great thread revival Publis! Makes me sad to read back through, so many good friends have moved on, but happy at the same time I brushed with testing off and on.

In high school 1884-1988 I was in AP History & English. We had this cool combo thing where it was a combo. Anyhooo, nope never knew I could take an AP exam. Didn't know anyone who did, and that's 4 years of AP classmates. Nope, never heard of it <shrug>

Fast forward to about 2004 I homeschool my kids, and had just started a new curriculum The Robinson Curriculum. (still do it today) There was a lecture given by Dr. Robinson regarding his brilliant (!) children and he told of how his kids all "quizzed out" (his words) of their first year of MIT and CalTech. Wow, I was impressed. Didn't really know how they did it, but that was certainly something only smart people did, so it served more to impress me with his teaching methodology rather than prompting me to look into college test-out. After all, at that time, I'd only earned an Associate's degree, and had never EVER taken a gen ed course, so I was very intimated by those with college degrees- despite being a community college teacher for about 13 years at that time. I'd never even heard about testing out. (side note- the college I'd been working for all those years accepts 45/60 CLEP toward the completion of an Associate's degree and we are a testing center- it's one of the most CLEP friendly community colleges I know, and I was IN THE BUILDING and didn't even know about CLEP! Face palm!)

So in 2006 my Robinson Curriculum buddy gave me a copy of Accelerated Distance Learning by Brad Voeller. He was a homeschooled kid who earned his BA at TESC. He made it sound so incredibly straightforward, and I didn't really believe that it was possible. So, I started digging, and found this forum right away. I didn't investigate CLEP for me, I investigated it for my son as a potential college credit option. I took a test just to see how hard it was and, well, here I am. I give full props to Brad Voller for sharing his story with me and many others, but Sgloer's creation of THIS BOARD was the bridge that let me go somewhere I didn't think I could go.

I also want to say that it's my personality to teach/help others, so since walking this road I've been able to help a lot of other people. I've met awesome people here, and I direct people here all the time. It is THE best CLEP site on the web, literally, I've looked lol