[lostgraduate911]

Hi everyone,

I’m sure this topic has been beaten to death, but I appreciate your responses in advance.

I am two years out of college now and just getting around to thinking about the last few credit hours I need to get my license. I passed all four CPA exams in under 18 months last December (2013, and the coordinator told me the exams, once passed together, do not expire), and I was in busy season from then until this past June at a big 4 firm. I called up my state board rep and he said I am 16 credits short. I always knew I was short about 10-15 or so, so this wasn’t a surprise. I just wanted to pass my exams first because I thought that would be the hardest to do while I was working, and also I was motivated by the $5,000 bonus the firm offered me for passing all four parts within the first year.

Now I’m somewhat distressed, because the online course I took at LSU (Advanced accounting) needs to be transferred to another institution, and the CLEP exams I wanted to take also need to be transferred somewhere. I’ve called a few schools (like university of phoenix, SNHU, LSU), and they will only accept both of these transfers if I’m fully enrolled as a student, but they wouldn’t really tell me if I could just “enroll” at their institution, take a class, transfer in my CLEPs, and then get the transcript and be done with it all.

I’m really regretting not taking CLEPs during my college, but I didn’t think this process would be so difficult.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for what I should do?

[tomq04]

I spent most of my time at the local community college learning spanish online. I did take a single advanced business law class at my alma matter.

In most states, credits are credits, and now is a great time to take some classes because you enjoy it, not because you “have to”…although you do “have to” 🙁

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[Anonymous]

tesc.edu – you can do credit banking there, which means you transfer the credits to them and they give you credit for them. I think it's around $600. I got my degree from TESC, but they offer credit banking too, for CLEPs, DSSTs, and all sorts of lesser-known options. I think this is the right TESC form: https://www.tesc.edu/documents/NondegreeServiceApp.pdf

However, I'm confused why you have to transfer your LSU accounting course elsewhere? I took all my accounting courses through LSU and transferred some to TESC because they were part of my degree, but the additional ones I sent straight from LSU.

[koz124]

That is odd…I transferred all mine straight from LSU too.

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[lostgraduate911]

Maybe the woman at LSU misunderstood me, I'll call back tomorrow to verify if you were all able to transfer without an issue.

Also, I did contact the New York State coordinator via email and he said that he would accept CLEPs directly from the College Board! So that's terrific news.

Maybe the problem is solved!

[Anonymous]

:O I've never heard of a state accepting CLEPs directly, so you're in great luck! For LSU, just request that a transcript be sent to the State Board and you should be in good shape.

[lostgraduate911]

Lilla – I've been talking to this guy, James, at NASBA for the last six months, he might just be sick of me at this point and let it slide to get rid of me. Haha. Oh well. I will update in a few months to let everyone know!

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