if your college says that geting a 50 is passing with a C for a CLEP exam and they will give u equivilancy course credit for it, does that mean if you get a 50 ..they put the course down on the transcript with a C and contribute that to your GPA?

Unfortunately, not at EC. CLEP scores translate only as a 'P' for Pass at EC. They give letter grades for DSST and EC exams.

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Anne, Pursuing BS in Liberal Arts at Excelsior College
Military 40 Credits, FEMA 24 Credits, Comm. College 9 Credits, Microsoft 3 Credits
CLEP - Sociology (59), Spanish (58), A&I Lit (58), HG&D (61), Ed Psy (56)
DSST - MIS (53), Environment & Humanity (58)
ECE - Info Lit (P), Psy A&A (B), FoG (B), Abn Psy (B), Research Methods (A), Soc Psy (C), World Pop (C), Org Beh (C)
PFC - Tech Math I (92)
Total - 121 Credits

I"M FINALLY DONE...WAITING FOR CONFERRAL FROM EC!

University of Maryland also only grants a pass for a clep exam. I am enrolled with EC but I was enrolled at umuc before and that was what they gave for passing a clep no letter grade only Pass so it didn't raise the gpa. Although I guess you could if you were getting rid of lower grades by taking the clep.

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Judy -
AS - Computer Science - Andover college
BS - Mgmt Information Systems -June 08
MS - Info Systems Mgmt - Start Aug 08 - UMBC

sorry but you are mistaken, excelsior only gives letter grades to select clep and dantes exams for example I got a A for my principle of management (61) but only a P for Info systems (65). and they do figure that into your GPA even Ps.

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AAT, Electromechanics, Excelsior College 2007
BS, Political Science, Excelsior College 2008
MSSL, Strategic Leadership, Mountain State (currently enrolled) 2009

All colleges that I am aware of, with the exception of Excelsior, award you 3 credits for passing a CLEP but do not give you a grade. As I said, Excelsior does give grades for certain CLEP exams. They changed their policy early this year, so they only give grades for two or three CLEPS now but they give grades for virtually all of the DSST exams, I believe.

CLEPS, if no grade is given, do not affect your GPA, unless you are using the CLEP to rid yourself of less than stellar grades, in which case they can help raise your overall GPA.

According to the student guide to credit by examination at Excelsior college that I got when I enrolled in August you only get letter grades for french language, german language, spanish languard and English Literature cleps, all others are pass.

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Judy -
AS - Computer Science - Andover college
BS - Mgmt Information Systems -June 08
MS - Info Systems Mgmt - Start Aug 08 - UMBC

Clarification for EC: it depends when you took the CLEP exam. jec959 is correct about tests that have been taken recently; however, I received letter grades for some other CLEPs that I took last year even though I wasn't enrolled at EC when I took them. I'll add the details to this thread when I get home.

EDIT:
Okay, I received letter grades on Macroeconomics (11/2005), American Government (09/2006) and Management (09/2006).

I did NOT receive letter grades on Accounting (02/2005), Humanities (03/2005), Marketing (03/2005), Human Growth (11/2005), Sociology (11/2005), Business Law (07/2007), Biology (09/2007), Edu Psych (10/2007).

Hope that helps someone!

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Chris
120 credits, 3.60 GPA, B.S. General Business, Excelsior College to be conferred 6/20/08

CLEP Accounting-71, Humanities-70, Marketing-78, Macro-70, Sociology-66, HG&D-72, Management-77, American Gov't-63, Business Law-73, Edu Psych-67, Biology-71; DSST MIS-66, Statistics-78, Principles of Finance-66, Money & Banking-65, Health-65, Business Law II-69, Environment-68, HRM-70; ECE Ethics-A, Org Behavior-B, Info Lit-P, Labor Relations-C, Ops Mgt-A, Business Strategy-B

Much to my surprise, I received a letter grade on my official EC transcript for US Hist I taken in 2005.

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Ridge

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