What % of people finish?

[sanantone]

@sanatone you're wrong. I think it does make a difference, colleges price based on prices of other colleges among other things, and also people generally avoid the hassle of doing credits at another school if they are enrolled in a program at their college.

Lets say we have two schools A and B. A is AMU (for-profit online) and B is a reputable brick and motor school I am currently enrolled in.

If I had a choice of paying 810 at A vs paying 3000 a course at the college I am enrolled in school B, I will choose the college I am enrolled in, so my college will not lose and I dont mind since its going to my student loans anyways.

If however you tell me school B also accepts a $49 dollar 3 credit course then I may start to think and school B loses.

It sounds hypothetical but its the reality 99% of the time, if students are accepted into a school it is unlikely they will look somewhere else for credits.

Many students transfer from cheaper community colleges. Universities don't have to accept their credits or make articulation agreements, but they do. 

CLEP and DSST can help improve on-time graduation rates and overall graduation rates. Low graduation rates are more harmful to a school than CLEP.

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Accepting CLEP is voluntary. If schools were really afraid of CLEP, all they would have to do is stop accepting it. They don't even have to offer it at their testing center.

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I think I've found the answer to why colleges are more accepting of AP exams than CLEPs. I already knew that AP exams are harder, but I think the issue is that CLEPs do not have associating classes. Whether or not you agree that there should be a quality of education concern, it is there. This is why many prestigious schools will accept AP exams and not CLEP or DSST. The passing scores on CLEPs are based on what a "C" student would get after taking a class.

Dawnette Cigrand, the school counseling Program Director at Winona State University, said she can see the appeal of trying to keep college costs down. But she's troubled about what's lost.

"Thinking of education as just credits that they just need to check off their list, that's a little disconcerting to me," she said. "I would argue that just because you can pass the test doesn't mean that you have mastered that subject area."

http://www.startribune.com/tests-allow-a...288161251/