I have been thinking of posting a poll like this for a long time, but a recent post in the exams passed thread decided me! I debated internally whether to make the poll public or not and... well... couldn't resist! Maybe in the future it would be fun to have poll on how long it took each of us to accomplish our goal. Happy voting!

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I am almost 18, and have 57 credits!! I have been working on my degree for nine months now, and should be done by next summer.

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BSBA Marketing Thomas Edison State College-63/120

College Math-66, College Algebra-64, Analyzing & Interpreting Literature-67, U.S. History I-66, U.S. History II-61, Information Systems & Computer Applications-59, Biology-61, DSST Introduction to Business-61, Introductory Sociology-65, Introductory Psychology-52, Principles of Microeconomics-54, Principles of Macroeconomics-47, Principles of Marketing-68, Financial Accounting-47, Introductory Business Law-62, Principles of Management-70, DSST Principles of Supervision-64, DSST Organizational Behavior-68, English Literature-61

Age 37 and 20 years in. Hopefully finished within a few months.

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Excelsior College
102 credits complete
20 UL Credits to go (7 tests)
BS Liberal Studies
Area of Focus:Computer Information Science

Next test:
Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (August 6th)

You could take 25 DSST tests or 27 CLEP tests for the price of 1 UoP class.

I'll be 25 in July and I'll be finished by August... 7 years off and on.

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Bachelor of Arts, 2008
87 Traditional Credits
27 Exam Credits
6 FEMA Credits

M.A. in progress 2010

I will be 41 in July and 42 when I finish my degree.

27 now - should be done in October before my birthday...

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Excelsior BS - General Business - 2008
Enrolled at Jacksonville State University - MBA - complete in 2010 (60% complete)

121 credits...ALL DONE BABY!!!

54 credits transfered in from prior college
54 credits by examination
6 credits from community college
3 credits from CSU-Pueblo (Operations Management)
4 credits for Information Literacy and Business Strategy from Excelsior

CLEP:
Principles of Macroeconomics (64)
Principles of Microeconomics (61)
Principles of Marketing (66)
Principles of Management (72)
Info Systems and Comp Applications (57)
Introductory Business Law (65)
Social Sciences & History (61)
DSST:
Principles of Supervision (58)
Principles of Statistics (67)
Introduction to Computing (60)
Principles of Financial Accounting (56)
Principles of Finance (55)
Money and Banking (52)
Ethics in America (66)
Management Information Systems (58)
ECE:
Ethics: Theory and Practice (B)
Organizational Behavior (C)

GMAT: 600

I'm 30 now and I just enrolled enrolled in college for the first time ever last week with Excelsior. They gave me an unofficial evaluation for my CLEPs/DSST and Army Transcripts
Excelsior gave me:
68 SH for an Associates of Applied Science in Technology (Computer)
Need-English Comp, Info Lit, Nat. Science, Math

85 SH for a BS in Liberal Arts.
Need- above mentioned courses/tests and 21 UL semester hours.

I'm hoping to be done in about one year from now.

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Excelsior College
AAS Computer Tech - April 2009
BSLS Admin/Mngmt - Dec 2009 Maybe Earlier

Passed so far since joining InstantCert:
CLEP
12L Spanish - 77/50
6 L Freshman Comp. - 51/50
6 L Social Science & Hist - 54/50
3 L Info Sys & Comp App - 56/50
3 L Intro Sociology - 61/50
3 L Prin of Mngmt - 68/50
3 L US History I - 52/50
3 L US History II - 59/50
DSST
3 U Civil War & Reconstruction - 59/47
3 U Drug and Alcohol - 49/49
3 L Here's to Your Hlth - 56/48
3 L Intro To Comp - 56/45
3 L Prin of Sup - 51/46
3 L Technical Writing 61/48
Central Texas College
3 L English Comp I "A"
1 L Academic Research "A" (Info Literacy Substitute)
Excelsior College:
3 L Biology- "B"
3 L College Math- "A"

Quote: There are no stupid questions, only stupid people. "Mr. Garrison"

Ok this old geezer has been working on a degree going on 35 years, I should get my AA in General studies from TESC next month if I get 2 more test in.

Inwe
I thought I had read somewhere that either CLEP or Dantes had age restrictions am I wrong? Did you graduate High School or GED?

I have an 18 year old son who may not be graduating HS next month, I was talking to him today about testing out of some exams. He is very bright got great marks on SAT, he just doesn't like doing homework and he hates getting up early. Would you recommend testing out over B & M? I feel that testing out of basic courses is fine, but at 18 you should be enjoying the college experience with other students your age.

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Linda

EXAMS TAKEN
1/07 TECEP Psycology of Women (Needed/ acheived) 60/74
1/08 DSST Technical Writing 46/64
4/07 TECEP Word Processing Fundamentals 65/75
4/07 CLEP Info Systems & Computor App. 50/64
3/07 DSST History of the Vietnam War 44/66
11/07 DSST Intro to World Religions 48/65
5/08 CLEP Analyzing & Interp. Literature 50/69
5/29/08 CLEP Intro to Psychology 50/65
6/12/08 CLEP Intro to Sociology 50/69
1/27/09 CLEP Social Science & History 50/66
Finally 3 FEMA Done!!
Planned
Intro to Theater TECEP
Organizational Behavior TECEP or DSST
Physics I TECEP or EXCEL
Physics II TECEP oe EXCEL
Physical Geology TECEP or DSST
Calculus CLEP or EXCEL
Foundations of Education DSST
Intro to Education Psycology CLEP
2-3 FEMA credits
Global Environmental Change class
+ 43 B & M CC credits and 3 TESC credits and Finally on 6/30/08 an AA Degree
Eventually a BA in Natural Science/Mathmatics

Hi there. I would suggest that you enable him to have the best of both worlds. Nearly 3000 universities accept CLEP for college credit. If I were in your position, I would check out a few colleges in your area and find out which exams they will accept for credit. It may take a little bit of advanced planning since you will not want him to go to a college that will not accept his CLEP exams for credit. Most colleges will post the CLEP policy on its website. I usually just type "CLEP" in the search bar on the college website and read on.

Also, great marks on SAT would be a pretty sure indication that he could be quite successful with CLEP exams. I was also a very gifted student who didn't want to do homework or get up early in the morning - I sure wish my parents would have known about CLEP at that time.

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I am 20. I turn 21 in June. I get to go drinking. Legally for the first time.

Anyway. I have a few certs (wont list).
I Got an Associate from Penn Foster (will be done in 1-2months)
AS from Rasmussen (RA) I graduate in December
Then I ship off to OCS and training for Surgical Spialist. I will be gone a while.

After that I begin the process of obtaining a BS Chem geared toward Pre-Pharmacy. I have taken a few fema, a few clep, 1 dsst, and 2 LSU classes. I am enrolled into excelsiors credit bank. I dont like all these transcripts. Upon entering OCS I will have two AS degrees and halfway to a BA Liberal Arts no major. I just started looking at everything and relized I can finish that the fastest through distance education. I want to go to B&M for my BS Chem because there are a lot of lab classes I have to do.

Though if I realy push I might be able to have enough credits for the BA when I ship off. Anyway I think I am doing good for a 20year old who took 2 years off of high school.

From reading, many of you are doing good too. INWE, you should be very proud of what you have accomplished at such a young age. As should everyone on this forum.