CLEPS to an Associate Certificate ?

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So, as far as scholarships go, the most numerous ones are for high schoolers going into college as a freshman; the good news is that 99% of the time, you are considered a freshman admit no matter how many college credits you get while you're still in high school. Now, that generally means actual credits earned in a college (so Dual Enrollment credit). CLEP and ACE will never count against you in that respect - you will still qualify for freshman scholarships.

What generally happens is that you apply as a freshman (rather than a transfer student, which is a totally separate thing); this also means that you will have to qualify as a freshman for admissions purposes - generally being your GPA, SAT/ACT scores, 2 years of a foreign language if the school requires that, etc. Every school is different. But, once you apply, are accepted, and then enroll, then you would send your CLEP and ACE transcripts, at which point the school can choose if/how much college credit to give you. It may bump you up to a sophomore or even a junior for credit purposes (so you'd get priority enrollment to choose your courses earlier than a freshman would), but for scholarship purposes, you'd still be considered a freshman until school actually started.