The Duggars and CollegePlus

[Publius]

Degreeinfo.com was around back then and so was another online degree forum. I discovered 3 or more online degree forums that mentioned the Big 3 before I came across this one. Although not free, John Bear's books have been around for decades. His book sells for around $30 now.

It was still SUPER unpopular, and even less applied in the past. At TESC, in 1996, the maximum number of students who would of tested out, was 43 (less then 4.5% of total degrees awarded). And in 1999, a maximum of 77 would tested out (less then 7.6%). Those numbers are coming from here http://www.degreeforum.net/excelsior-tho...-tesc.html

It was not that popular at all. Any place you could of gone on the internet or whatever book you could of read, would of probably been approached with much more skepticism and doubt. People STILL can't believe you can obtain a college degree this way, even after thousands of people have done so. Think of how much harder it would of been to believe and do it when only a handful of people did it. There would be no "specific exam feedback" hardly any feedback at all, save for maybe word of mouth. It was a lot tougher and unpopular even just a decade ago.
But in the last decade a revolution took place in higher education and from online communities like degreeinfo and this site, degreeforum, to other sites, to companies like Verity, and CollegePlus, etc. have all been helping people save countless millions of $$$ and years of time.
So yes, there was an occasional book or site that explained it or mentioned the big 3, but it wasn't enough. It was the starting place, a beginning, but not enough to sustain it. Now, it's increasing in popularity exponentially, and as time goes on, I doubt you'll have to worry about CP. If their services really aren't worth 3K, guess what, they'll have to lower their price tag, or board of their windows and go out of business.