I thought it might be useful to post what I'm actually planning to do.

I've checked with one of the law schools that I'm considering. They say that as long as I have a GPA, they do not care if the majority of my classes are listed as credit. If they're college level credit and I do have a GPA, I'm fine. Now, that is assuming that I do well on the LSAT.

Starting out from scratch, I got a 157 on my first LSAT practice test (test number 39). My plan is to study my butt of from now till September 30th and try my hardest to get a 170+ score. I think I can do it, honestly. I probably wouldn't be able to get into Yale, Stanford, or Harvard, but that's OK, I only want to go to the University of Chicago. ;-)

BUT, even though I basically now have all credits required for graduation, I'm not going to get my last couple of credits till later and will not apply for graduation until I am fairly sure that I can get in on the strength of my LSAT score. If for some reason I don't do well on the LSAT or that I'm rejected at all schools that I want to go to, I'll probably enroll at Excelsior as they would convert many of my CLEP's and all of my Dantes over to a GPA. But I hope that's not necessary. We'll see.

I'll try to let y'all know what happens. My wife is working toward her undergrad via CLEP's and Dantes, so we'll probably still be active here.

Update: I just called and spoke to the director of admissions at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign... She said that my degree type would be fine so long as I have some way of documenting that the credits are "real" credits. I.e., they have a problem with credits from institutions where the credits were gained, but can't be proven because the student owes the school money and the school won't send a transcript. In those situations, they have no way of knowing whether or not the student got C's on all of their classes, A's, or didn't even take 30 credit hours when they put down 60. Sending a transcript from CLEP or Thomas Edison should be fine.

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Thomas Edison State College alum: BA in Liberal Studies, 06. Considering other school/career options... Working on sciences.