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Hear from Tom Anderson about how he is using Modern States to earn free college credit.
Modern States helps students of all ages and backgrounds shave time and money on their college education, and many use our philanthropy to speed up graduation by more than a year. Our free online collection of college-level courses prepares students for the College Board’s College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) exams, and more than 2,900 colleges and […]
This high school senior from the Bronx is headed to Yale. While the Ivy League school doesn’t accept CLEP for credit, the NYC x FYFF program helped Danielys earn cash for related college costs. Learn how:
Myles Cramer is a senior at Penn State University who loves Modern States and earning free college credit. Hear how he saved nearly $8K on tuition by using our program.
Twenty. That’s how many of the College Board’s College Level Examination Program (CLEP) exams Elliot Rosen passed after taking Modern States courses, what we believe is the most of any learner since the founding of our philanthropy almost four years ago*. A 51-year-old from Erial, New Jersey, Rosen completed his coursework at Thomas Edison State […]
Why Modern States Courses Are the Perfect Fit for DREAMers Making the most of a free, seamless, hassle-free catalog of credit-earning college courses If you’re a DREAMer, an undocumented immigrant youth who came to the U.S. at a young age, you’ve likely encountered endless hurdles when it comes to your education. That said, if you’re […]
Hear from the very talented Stark siblings about how they are using Modern States to earn free college credit.
Scarlet Almanzar, a motivated student who in 2020 graduated from The Young Women’s Leadership School in the Bronx, was looking to build college-level confidence last summer when she turned to NYC x Freshman Year for Free (NYC x FYFF). “I wanted to know what level of difficulty the college curriculum was going to be,,” Almanzar, 19, […]
Nineteen-year-old Noah Hill never knew life as an underclassman, and he’s already done with college. Hill, from rural Crewe, Virginia, in December earned his bachelor’s degree in business management from Charter Oaks State College, a Connecticut-based online school that — other than a good education — offered him exactly what he was looking for upon […]
For Karen Metcalf, choosing to homeschool her five children is about family connections. “I really want to know my kids well, and for them to know each other well,” Metcalf said in an interview. “They do, and I do.” Metcalf, coordinator of the homeschool program for Maryville Christian School in Maryville, Tennessee, turned to Modern […]
Wisconsin’s Adam Klawitter wasn’t letting anything get in the way of his education. At the start of the pandemic, he withdrew from his sophomore year of college but continued to look for cost-effective opportunities to further his education. He discovered ModernStates.org, which has 30+ tuition-free courses to prepare students for CLEPs (credit-bearing exams offered by […]
Almost 30 years ago, Kerri Cook Halligan earned her GED, began community college and started a family. She soon found herself pulled in too many directions and put her education on hold. In November 2018, she began using Modern States to prepare for and pass the Human Growth and Development CLEP exam. She passed six […]