Today, not only did I get 4 college credits, but I also saved myself and my parents approximately $1540 in tuition and fees (UMass Amherst currently charges approx. $385 per academic credit according to their 2015-2016 data). Want to know how to do it too?
It’s called a CLEP exam, folks. I have no clue what it stands for, but in subtext, it means “a $90 exam in which you sit in front of a computer screen, get a 50/95 score, and receive college credit that also can possibly count as one of your required general education courses”. I went in this morning anticipating that my old AP Psychology skills were still extremely rusty, especially for the fact that I haven’t taken the AP exam for that since last May. But, surprisingly, I ended up scoring a 57/95, which is not good at all in the context of letter grading, but with a requirement for credit at 50/95, I was skipping out of that testing center. I even left my monogrammed coffee mug (probably never going to see that thing again).
