Modern States Announcement

[dfrecore]

AP tests aren't easy to take if you aren't in high school, and AP classes are better preparation than anything Modern States can put together. Plus, AP tests are lower level credits, and a lot of them overlap CLEPs. Oh, well. They must have some kind of thing going with College Board.

I can't quite figure out how they decided to do certain CLEP and then certain AP. Like, it makes sense to do overlapping courses, because the material is already there (Biology, Calculus, English Lit, Psych, Macroecon, Microecon, Spanish). But then, they didn't do other overlapping ones (Am Govt, Chemistry, French, US History CLEP's but not AP). And they did totally separate AP exams that don't correspond to CLEP (CompSci, Environmental Science, Human Geography, Italian).

I'm wondering if they created their own CLEP courses, but then saw that there were already courses out there for these AP exams from instructors (possibly MOOC's) and they are picking the low-hanging fruit? And they will add more as they come? Hard to figure out their strategy.

Either way, I'm happy that they exist though. Not complaining, as much as curious about what's going on over there.