See How Much Money You Can Save On College!

Of course, my favorite way to save money on college is with scholarships. Not only did scholarships allow us to pay only $1500 for my son’s college degree (tuition, room, board, books, and fees included), but they have also saved the families I work with hundreds of thousands of dollars!

But there is another way to save money on college in addition to scholarships - a way that can be implemented even before high school: earning college credit before starting college. From AP exams to CLEP, dual-enrollment classes to ASU’s Universal Learner Courses, students can earn college credit to reduce their time (and, thus, the cost) in college.

One of the problems, however, is knowing which courses and programs will be accepted at certain colleges. My friend, Josh See, has solved this problem with the College Credit Tracker!

The College Credit Tracker is a single spreadsheet — one you already know how to use — that does the research for you.

80+ colleges. Every major credit type. One dashboard.

✅ CLEP exams — which ones each college accepts, the minimum score needed, and the exact course it replaces

✅ AP exams — same breakdown, school by school

✅ ASU Universal Learner courses — tracked right alongside everything else

✅ Real course equivalencies, not vague “yes we accept credit” answers — so you know precisely what class you’ll get credit for.

✅ A one-stop-shop, Is this data readily available? Sure, sort of. If you know where to look and feel like searching in 7 different places and even then, organizing the data is a battle.

✅ Play in the ‘Sandbox’, Not sure if you want to take an exam or course? No problem! Use the tool as a guide to discover what, how, and if you should pursue the credit options.

That feature alone pays for this tool!

If your student takes both the CLEP American Government exam and the AP Government exam and an ASU Universal Learner government course, thinking they’re “covering their bases” — at most colleges, only one of those actually counts. The other two? Wasted exam fees, wasted study time, zero extra credit.

The tracker catches this automatically. The instant two of your exams or courses would earn credit for the same class at the same college, it flags it — before you waste another dollar or another weekend of studying on redundant test prep.

This isn’t just a checklist. It’s a calculator.

Enter your colleges of interest, log the exams, and the built-in Savings Calculator shows you:

• Total credits that will actually transfer

• The dollar value of those credits at each specific school’s tuition rate

• How many semesters — and how much tuition — you could skip entirely

Watching “$0 saved” turn into “$12,000 saved” as your student adds real, transferable credit is the moment this tool sells itself.

• Compare up to 3 colleges side-by-side — CLEP policy, AP minimum scores, ASU Universal Learners rules, credit caps, all in one view

• Works instantly — no setup, no linking, no waiting. Open it and start typing.

• Works in Google Sheets or Excel — whatever your family already uses

• One-time purchase, yours to keep — track this for one kid or every kid you’ve got

• Homeschool families managing AP/CLEP/college course strategy

• Parents of high schoolers trying to shave a year (or more) off tuition

• High Schoolers that are wanting to know how they can earn as much college credit as possible, efficiently.

• Adults looking to go to college or back to college and don’t want to start college from zero credits.

• Anybody who’s ever thought “wait, does that credit even transfer?” OR, “How do I know if my colleges accept this?” — and realized they had no way to check

A single wasted CLEP exam: hours of prep time, for nothing. A single semester of unnecessary tuition: $4,000–$15,000+, depending on the school. A College Credit Tracker: a fraction of a single college credit.

Stop guessing. Stop hoping the credit transfers. Know, before you or your student ever commits to CLEP, AP, or an ASU Universal Learners college courses, exactly what it’s worth — and where.

Instant download. Works immediately in Google Sheets or Excel. No subscription, no software to install — just answers.

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