A Clep Hater

[burbuja0512]

I have found that there are CLEP haters out there. Most of them don't understand what we're really doing, but I think that there are other reasons for disliking tests.

First of all, if you took a CLEP and failed it, and then never tried to do it again, you would probably be really upset about it. You might even hate it and others that were successful at something that you failed.

Secondly, and more likely, if you paid tons of money for a B&M degree, and saw that someone else was getting the same degree without having to invest tens of thousands of dollars and years of their life, it could also make you upset. AP is a little less threatening because so many people come out of high school with a few AP credits.

While there are some CLEP/DSST's that I've walked away from thinking that they were so easy, I practically stole the credits, the vast majority have been a lot of work, with a couple being insanely difficult. I'm in a Capstone class right now and it's challenging, but no where near as hard as some of the tests I have taken. My brother, a COSC graduate, got his masters and is now working on his doctorate. His opinion is that classwork at the undergrad level is a lot of busy work, and if you need the busy work to learn the topic, then that's ok. However, he agrees that testing can be tougher than classes.

Anyhow... you'll never please everyone, and that's ok. Smile and walk away knowing that you'll zip through your degree with little debt if any, while the hater will end up with mountains of debt and at least four years of school (though the average is now closer to five). You could be finished with your graduate degree before they get through their undergrad, so you win