testing out and grades/gpa

[sirjake]

Very few testing out credits are graded. Almost all are pass/fail. As such, your GPA is going to be made up of whatever actual courses you have taken. For graduate school (getting in to law school is where I have experience), they actually look at your actual courses from each and every institution you attended, not your GPA as reported by the degree-granting institution. So my GPA was composed of every grade I had ever received at the collegiate level (even non-accredited credits, oddly enough). I had to send transcripts from ALL previously attended schools or face potential disciplinary action.

Excelsior does still offer grades for some DSST exams. I think all of their own ECE exams are graded, though. They don't offer any grades for CLEPs.

See here:
https://www.excelsior.edu/Excelsior_Coll...ore_Charts

I've never heard of another school offering grades for proficiency exams.

Note: I found out that if you have taken an exam previously, and they had grades for that exam back when you took it but don't currently, you get that grade from back when you took it. At least that's the way it worked for me when I was enrolled at Excelsior;That could have changed since, of course.