Excelsior - CLEPs count toward GPA?

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In another thread today, someone (a TESC student, I think) said Excelsior counts CLEPs toward a student's GPA. As an EC student, I'm concerned -- is this accurate? My evaluation summaries do show me with a "major GPA" of 2.0, because all my major-related credits thus far have been CLEPs. But my "eval GPA" (which I think will be what gets reported in the end) has remained the same as what I began with (3.3), since I haven't taken any graded courses or tests yet.

[jonasling]

See if this helps you any:

http://www.degreeforum.net/excelsior-tho...dents.html

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OK, so I think that means CLEPs are included in the GPAs of students who took CLEPs before EC changed its policy of granting letter grades for them. In my case, I enrolled after the change, so I guess I won't have a bunch of "C" grades dragging me down. Thanks!

[NAP]

I needed to double-check this info this week also. Here it is:

FYI...TESC does NOT count your CLEP/DSST test scores in your GPA, you just get credit for the class. I believe Excelsior does count these scores in your gpa.

For Excelsior, it is my understanding that currently all CLEPs are Pass/Fail and do not count towards the GPA. The DSSTs with the new 3 digit scoring are also Pass/Fail and do not count towards the GPA (for now at least), but the older DSSTs with the 2 digit scoring are graded and do count towards the GPA.

Can anyone confirm if this is true?

Thanks.

You're 100% correct!

Note that some DSSTs are still being graded and do count toward the GPA.