For those that say CLEP is "cheating"

[Publius]

When most people think it's cheating they say or think so because they're just upset they didn't know about it (or were to lazy to bother with it) when they were going through school. There isn't much of a reason that they couldn't take one (granted their college accepts them), IF they wanted to save time and money.

If it was really cheating why are 2900 schools accepting them? If this was some scandal you'd find maybe 29 institutions involved in it, not 2900. Also if this was cheating how would CLEP survive all these decades? It's for these reasons that I don't think the people who claim this really believe this... if they still believed it, why aren't they out there, doing everything they can to expose us, expose this cheating phenomenon? Most likely because they're to busy working long hours trying to pay off their student loans.

We aren't going out there saying everyone who attends a B&M college is cheating because they don't have to plan out their entire degree, because they don't have to take any CLEPs (why can't we through this back on them? Taking a CLEP is no more cheating then not taking one!!), etc. This is a legitimate means to earn a degree, that's all there is to it. We just happen to be doing faster and cheaper then they are (like I've said, I think that's why their mad). Let people earn their degrees how they want because they're still earning it!