No CLEPs Until 2021!!

[natshar]

So this happened....

I called one of the colleges near me. Turns out they aren't offering over any CLEPs all summer... but also no CLEPs all fall semester as well!! Meaning they won't offer any CLEPs at all for anyone until January 2021 at the earliest. And that information is coming from the head at test center. The test center is basically closed and only open for essential tests required students that attend that specific college. Hope this isn't a trend for other colleges.

But then I called a second college and got a CLEP for next week. The second school is only a 10 minute drive from the first and in the same state and county. So who knows how it all works?

Nearly all of the colleges in this area closed their testing centers to non-students a few years ago. This is why I stopped taking CLEP & DSST exams since I'd be forced to travel like an hour each way to the next closest open test center.

Of course, now with the pandemic, I'd not expect them to be reopening test centers any time soon. I think hoping for them to re-open before Spring is being optimistic unless they can make some major changes to how those test centers are set up. Most of the ones I've been to are small cramped rooms with poor air circulation and terrible for physical distancing for multiple hours at a time.

Yeah but the crazy thing is this test center isn't even doing CLEPs or DSSTs for their students. I know some schools do that. But they told me no CLEPs for anyone at all. Their test center will be extremely limited. Only important required tests for students and that is all, nothing else. I think placement tests will even be online.

But when I say schools "near me" I actually do have to drive an hour to take my clep. The two schools I referred to are in a neighboring state since none in my state is open that I know of. Normally I wouldn't drive an hour for a CLEP, but this is worth it considering I need the credit asap. And I have no idea if this pandemic gets worse if they close it all down again, I can't take that risk.

It depends on the college. I have taken CLEPs at three different colleges. One of them had private room and it was very large, maybe it wasn't meant to be private but the two times I went there I was the only one the whole time. This was two years ago, truly ahead of the times.

The school I'm taking the CLEP at next week, told me now CLEPs are by appointment only and on an extremely limited basis. I am going to be the only one taking a CLEP test when I  am there. I don't know how many other test takers would be there considering it is summer and all summer classes are online and they aren't allowing normal student tests in the center for now. There is good chance I could be the only one in the test center. I feel safe about this.