Lesson 29: Goal-Setting, Part 14, Enter College as a Junior
Reading assignment:
Gary North, “Part-Time Teenage Job: $50,000/Year” (2016). Download here.
First, you need 60 semester credits/hours to complete your lower-division course work.
Second, schedule CLEP exams or DSST exams (exams not offered by CLEP). Take the general RPC courses in the academic year, and at the end of each course, take the CLEP cram courses. Follow directions. Then take the CLEP exams. They are given year-round, unlike AP exams (May only). If you get a score above 50, you have passed. Find out before you begin if your targeted university takes all CLEPs, and what scores are required. Get this in writing. But remember: there are lots of online colleges (cheap) that take all CLEPs.
Best time to study for exams: summer vacation. Study for two 6-credit hour CLEPs next summer (12 hours). Study for two 6-hour courses in the following summer (12 hours). Then take three 6-credit hour courses (18 hours) in each of the following two summers. That gets you 60 hours.
Liberal arts courses that are required for graduation that covered by CLEPs. Here is the order to take them if you are in high school. Take the ones that are not offered in a high school curriculum. Wait until after you take the high school course to cram for a CLEP.
CLEP’s are for summertime cramming. This order would work. The student takes these exams at the end of each year. The student will enter college as a junior.
Social science/humanities major:
Humanities
Analyzing and interpreting literature
Social sciences and History
Natural sciencesPsychology and educational psychology
Western civilization (I, II)
English literatureEconomics (macro, micro)
History of the U.S. (I, II)
American literature
Natural sciences major:
Analyzing and interpreting literature
Natural sciences
Biology
Western civilization (I)Western civilization (II)
Economics (micro/macro)
ChemistryHistory of the U.S. (I, II)
College mathematics
Calculus
Physics