What weight do you give a course with CLEP on transcript?

[KarenNC]

I'm putting together an Intro to Sociology course for my daughter using edX courses, intro college texts, etc and plan to have her take the CLEP at the end of it. She also has completed an accredited honors bio online course through the local school system, and then did some extra study to take and pass the CLEP (57), just to see if she could. She would still have the honors weighting without the CLEP. No AP is available for sociology and she's not going to be taking AP bio (headed to a humanities major, most likely). We're primarily doing the CLEP tests to verify grades and to hopefully stretch our options in dual enrollment in jr/sr years at the local community college (which requires a specific list of classes to be taken before any other options can be explored). Any credit she gets from her ultimate college will be a bonus. She will be a sophomore and is just starting the college search process, so I don't have any specific college's list of requirements to use as a game plan. We're keeping her options as open as possible.

 

I'm mostly concerned about her GPA. We will be preparing a weighted transcript, and I'm not sure how much weight to give these. Honors classes get one level, AP/dual enrollment higher. How would you classify these sorts of classes? I realize some colleges unweight or re-weight all transcripts to their own scale, so it doesn't matter for those. I'm considering the others and any scholarships that are dependent on the weighted GPA and I don't want to short-change her.

[Melissa B]

Honors weighting

[chiguirre]

You can get college credit for CLEPs, so I'd weight it the same as a DE course.