Different course equivilents at different colleges and transfers

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Schools want to see the original source of credit.  So if you take 12cr and a CLEP at school A, school B will give you credit for those 12cr of courses, but want to look at the CLEP score separately.  Then you take 30cr at SchoolB.  Then you transfer again, and School C would look at the transcripts of Schools A & B and give you 42cr, and the CLEP score from CLEP.  So School C isn't looking at School B's transcript and seeing what they gave you for School A's classes.  School C wants to see your transcripts from the schools you actually took classes at.

Not true in Texas. If you get CLEP credit at taxpayer funded school A and transfer to taxpayer funded school B, school B will use the transcript to give credit. No CLEP scores need to be submitted to school B.

Let's say you take CLEP U.S. History. If you make a 50 or higher, Houston Community College will transcribe 3 hours of credit as CR. The University of Texas requires a CLEP score of 65 in order for you to receive credit. But if you transfer from Houston Community College to the University of Texas, you will get transfer credit for U.S. History. It's not considered CLEP credit at the University of Texas, it's considered transfer credit from Houston Community College. In other words, the CLEP score doesn't matter at the school being transferred to. U.S. History is considered part of the Texas Academic Core Curriculum and state law ensures transferability of core courses. Suppose you CLEP a subject that Houston Community College gives credit for but the University of Texas doesn't at all. As long as it is on the HCC transcript as a core course, UT must accept it as transfer credit. I've seen noncore courses transfer as well.

This raises a question in Texas, is there never a need to pay for CLEP scores to be sent to a taxpayer supported school? After all, if they appear on a transcript, they'll transfer in. Consider the following. Only 66 hours can be transferred from a community college to a university. Let's say there are 66 earned hours and 12 hours of CLEP at the community college. Further let's say the CLEP scores also are worth 12 hours at the university. In that case, you would pay to have the CLEP scores sent to the university. The university would consider the 12 hours as actual CLEP credit, not transfer credit. Using this combination of community college credits and CLEP credits, it's possible to start at a university with more than 66 hours. One of my kids managed to start at a university with about 87 hours this way.

As far as different course numbers are concerned, Texas has a website to convert course numbers from one school to another. https://tccns.org/ Registrars aren't stupid and they aren't going to give double credit for the same subject just because the course numbers differ from one school to another.