<p>After 4 years of Spanish, your son should do well on the CLEP and/or placement exam.</p>
<p>I highly recommend the CLEP as you can register with the testing center one day and take the test (and get your score) the next day. Two days before the AP test, I called the testing center, took the test the next day, and since I scored high enough for maximum credit, I went to school the next day (the day of the AP test), cancelled my exam, and got a partial refund. I recommend planning further ahead than I did, but the whole process took less than 3 hours.</p>
<p>IHP only looks to see if you have 4 semesters’ worth of language credit, regardless of how that credit was earned. Once your son has credit for previous knowledge of a language, he could fulfill the remainder of the IHP language requirement by taking another language if he so desired.</p>