testing out and grades/gpa

[cookderosa]

Thanks. I'm blushing. :o ;-) I honestly don't remember if I came up with the idea myself or if I read it online. Regardless, when I saw my GPA jump by .4, I was pretty giddy.

And I did get credit for the tests that Excelsior graded at my State U, too, but only on a pass/fail basis. Duplicate credit, but because duplicate credit grades are averaged, and a pass/fail is omitted from such an average, it comes out as just whatever grade you got at EC.

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See, and this is a good lesson in understanding how/why credit works/is denied. In the sample, there is no transfer out of EC, thus no problem Also, in this instance, one is not using the exam to build a new degree. Limited utility, but I still think it's brilliant. Go ahead and take credit I love it when someone thinks of something new.

It's worth noting, however, that duplicate credit isn't always averaged. For instance- I've been looking at GPA for med schools. MD programs count both in the GPA while DO programs use grade replacement, so you'd have to know if it was going to be a benefit, or just an expensive experiment. (a person would have to pay >$800 plus the cost of exams to do this...but if it means getting into grad school/law school/med school, it's worth it. Also, you wouldn't have to use duplicate credit (though it would be easier for obvious reasons). Since some of the exams are now scored in hundreds without grades, you'd need a list of the old score for grades. I just looked up the new list, and I noticed that several of the tests changed. Drugs/Alcohol for instance is now pass/fail -but I wonder if a person would get a letter grade if they enrolled now and the score was from before- I'm guessing yes, but I'm sure someone here already knows.

EDIT: forget it for med school, it wouldn't help. The only DSSTs that would count are maths.