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Most schools have a Spanish CLEP test that will allow you to skip the basic courses. Study books for the CLEP exam are available in stores and on-line: http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Language-Preparation-English-Edition/dp/0738610895

https://www.collegeboard.org/

Sample questions: http://clep.collegeboard.org/exam/spanish-language

There is also the SAT II tests for Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian, French and Latin that some schools use (books are also available for these and study materials are available on-line: http://sat.collegeboard.org/practice/sat-subject-test-preparation-spanish-with-listening ).

http://leadership.olemiss.edu/for-current-um-students/

This program is generally well regarded. Just do well in the prerequisites.

It is sort of akin to political science, but has more of the economics stuff that'll be useful to get you cool jobs (ie, you might be doing more business stuff for a sports team or something in the marketing world. Most people overestimate the size and capacity of marketing as a career field.)
Still, I would really try to CLEP out of everything you can.

http://www.amazon.com/CLEP-Human-Growth-Development-Preparation/dp/0738603961

They sell guides like this (I mentioned it earlier), but if it is an easy subject that you're looking to take for clep, reading the book should be enough to get you through it.


What did you get on the ACT if you don't mind?

If you're pretty smart, being in the Public Policy Program will sort of shepherd you from being lost in the crowd of a big school with apathetic advisers.

Also, even if you major in some random liberal arts thing or your degree doesn't exactly match what you're doing or there is no direct equivalent (say you were working somewhere in the sports world), the better your GPA, the greater the chances of you being accepted to do whatever you want to do.

Even if you decide on law school or business school in a few years, your GPA will be really important. And even if you had some sort of dramatic career change to move towards something like medicine or something very math heavy, it is a relatively small group of classes that separate you from those fields of study. Not that you should only pick an easy major or easy classes, but plenty of people decide they want to study biochemistry or biology, trash their major, switch majors, and then end up studying IMC (not that imc is bad, but making a 3.0 with biology will make you untouchable to law school, and even hamstring you a bit at the business school admissions process).

Picking up useful skills like the business/economics stuff, or a language can really help you with certain fields of study, or put you into niche positions.

Although I don't strongly recommend it, I didn't buy any sort of practice exam nor study guide. First, I went to the Free Clep Prep Human Growth and Development section, and used all of the "Free Study Sources". The Tufts link isn't valid anymore, though.

Next, I went to this link for one of the test prep guides on Amazon. But instead of buying it, I just clicked "Look Inside" and studied every single vocab word.

I also used this practice exam. Here's the answer key.

From that point on, I would go into google and type in "Clep Human Growth and Development Quizlet" and studied up on every set of flashcards I could find.

Again, you're probably better off actually buying that practice book. It's currently the cheapest study guide you can get right now and it has a lot of good reviews. Free Clep Prep even recommends it. I'm pretty frugal, but that's just me.

Also, don't underestimate understanding the theories from Sigmund Freud and Piaget! I skimmed over them at first, but then I saw a forum post where this person was like "They were most of the exam". I'm glad I heeded that advice lol.

Thank you so much!

You mean the books like this: http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Language-Online-Preparation-English/dp/0738610895/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397922626&sr=1-6?