CLEP -- transfers to 4 yrs?

[studyingfortests]

Thanks for the advice!

It's honestly quite difficult for me to decide if I just want that box ticked, or if I should worry about prestige. A lot of it rides on whether I'll want to go back for a graduate degree (especially for CRNA, since those programs are very selective). If I don't care, of course I'm going to go for the easy, fast, cheap option, but it's not quite such an easy decision for me. I'm going to try to keep my options open as much as I can for now, focusing on the credits that will actually be accepted at all the different schools I'm considering. CU Anschutz definitely has one of the strictest policies I've seen, they accept only 11 CLEPs (really 10, w/ College Comp Modular and College Comp) for the program I'm looking at. 

I wish these things could be simpler! It seems like it's so needlessly complex that certain credits won't transfer to different places.... I guess every college wants things done "their way". Annoying.

You do have one other option you might not have considered: You can, theoretically at least, earn a degree from one of the degree completion schools, and then, at some later point, go back for a second bachelor's degree from a more selective school. If you do that, your degree from, let's say, TESU should in theory be accepted and recognized as a college degree that will meet the general education requirements, so that you have to complete only the major requirements.

I don't personally know anyone who has tested this with a highly selective school, but I do know people who have gone to Excelsior or TESU and been accepted at highly selective schools for graduate programs.  So it makes sense that if they'd accept the degree to enroll you in grad school, they should also accept it to enroll you in a second degree program.  Perhaps others here have more insight into that.  But it may be one way that you could have your quick degree and, later, the selective one if needed.