How do you know about CLEP?

[anar579]

I went to a 4-year university right out of high school, Florida International University, a state college (and dropped out after a year). While there, I "heard" about CLEP, just as I heard about several other exams such as TOEFL, CLAST, LSAT, MCAT... the list goes on. Of course, I was completely ignorant about all of them. I didn't realize I could "test out" of courses. No one ever told me... not advisers, not professors, not even other students.

I took several AP courses in high school but never took them seriously. My public high school even paid the full exam fee for every student. Teachers in high schools pushed AP exams on kids, encouraging everyone to take them. I doodled on my $70 exam bubble sheets, haha.

Back to CLEP, I wish someone in college would've told me about CLEP exams. In retrospect, perhaps advisers don't buy into the notion of taking a single test instead of a semester class, or maybe they like getting those nice fat tuition payments for each credit. Who knows...