Would you be considered a transfer student if you take CLEP after sr yr high school?

[HomeschoolingUniversity]

Our DD is homeschooled and in 10th grade. She took her first CLEP exam last summer and is looking forward to taking more throughout high school. It's possible she may take some CLEP exams after she graduates high school. So, if she took some CLEP exams the summer following her sr yr, (or beyond...who knows? she may take a gap year) could this jeopardize her standing as a freshman when she moves on to college? Would she now be considered a transfer student since she acquired college credit after high school?

Thank you for any insight!

cindi

[rebel100]

Unlikely they would consider her a transfer student. That's usually a pretty specific designation involving another school.

It is possible they would consider her advanced standing, and that could have an effect.

What are you concerned about specifically? This won't affect her financial aid or aid eligibility.

[Life Long Learning]

Many colleges have a standard amount of credits to meet. Many use 24 credits as a standard.

If you've completed 24+ transferable college credits, you must meet the following criteria to be admitted to UND:
•Minimum of a 2.0 cumulative GPA
•Be in good standing at the college(s) you previously attended

If you've completed fewer than 24 transferable college credits, you must meet the criteria above in addition to the criteria for freshmen.
http://und.edu/admissions/undergraduate/...udents.cfm

[HomeschoolingUniversity]

What about scholarship eligibility?

[clep3705]

There isn't a universal rule. I've seen schools in Texas say that if you have less than 30 hours, you are a new student and they want ACT or SAT scores. Students with 30 hours are considered transfer students at those schools.

If you've been in college for 2 semesters, which is one academic year, generally you must take at least 12 hours per semester to be considered a full-time student. Using that definition, it makes sense that someone has been a full-time student for one academic year to be considered a transfer student. However, 12 hours per semester does not accumulate enough hours for a bachelor's degree in 4 academic years. Graduating in 4 academic years requires 30 hours per academic year, which explains why some schools use a cutoff of 30 hours for determining transfer student eligibility.

[dfrecore]

Around here, a student isn't considered a transfer student unless they have 60 or so semester units (Junior year). No ideas on scholarships, I guess you'd have to look at each individual scholarship to see what their requirements are. I would look at a bunch and see what they say, but I would also assume that MANY students who apply for academic scholarships have some AP credits under their belt, so they are in the same circumstance as your daughter would be in - some college credit going into college.

[dmjacobsen]

I think the key thing to look at is what the school considers to be transfer credit. I don't think that CLEP/DSST/ACE credits can really be considered transfer credit in the vast majority of cases, because you're not transferring them from a degree-granting institution. For example, if you go to ABC Community College and have a couple of CLEP exams on your transcript, those CLEP exams are not automatically transferred when you transfer to XYZ University. The CLEP transcript has to be sent to XYZ University for their own evaluation. There may be exceptions, but this is the general rule.

The source for the absolute best answer will be an admissions advisor at the school your daughter plans on attending.

[dfrecore]

I think a "Transfer Student" in based on number of credits, not where those credits came from.

[clep3705]

Again, there is no universal rule. In Texas, the CLEP transcript does not have to be sent in all cases. A student transferring to a public college or university will get transfer credits for CLEP that appear on the sending institution's transcript. The receiving public institution in Texas isn't sent a CLEP transcript. They go by what is on the transfer transcripts.

[cookderosa]

Our DD is homeschooled and in 10th grade. She took her first CLEP exam last summer and is looking forward to taking more throughout high school. It's possible she may take some CLEP exams after she graduates high school. So, if she took some CLEP exams the summer following her sr yr, (or beyond...who knows? she may take a gap year) could this jeopardize her standing as a freshman when she moves on to college? Would she now be considered a transfer student since she acquired college credit after high school?

Thank you for any insight!

cindi

CLEP exams are absolutely positively 100% NOT transfer credit. It doesn't matter if she took them in high school or after. *The College Board isn't a college thus doesn't issue credit, only once these transcripts are evaluated are scores turned into credit, thus there is nothing to transfer from- these scores are not credit until a college makes them so. *

Dual enrollment is subject to the target college's policy, overwhelming majority never count dual enrollment earned before graduation as transfer credit.

In almost every instance, any and all credit earned AFTER high school through a college will count as transfer and require an official transcript- even if she dropped, withdrew, or failed the class.