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0 pointsbluGill1y ago0 comments

High school is often sending the best kidsto college with half their first year done already with AP classes.

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Colleges don't really take AP courses in the way you're describing. I took every single AP and dual credit course in HS I was offered and a few more I wasn't. Did you know schools can just order the test for you without the class? Anyway, I went to uni with 80ish credit hours which "coincidentally" didn't count for any of my major classes or electives.

So the AP as a means of saving $$$ loophole has been hard closed.

thfuran1y ago

I think you're extrapolating a lot from a single datapoint.

Spivak1y ago

I guess but I went to a major well-known university that isn't weird or exceptional in their process and has the same table of AP to course number mapping for every student so we were all in the same boat.

And in hindsight of course that's how it works, both because the university isn't keen on cost savings but also because every student is coming loaded with APs. AP physics isn't "college physics" anymore it's just high school physics and the optional prereq to Physics 101.

vidanay1y ago

Between AP and dual credit, my kid should graduate HS with somewhere around 30 hours of college credit.

GauntletWizard1y ago

I made it to College half a semester off from being a Junior. You can get a ton of college credit before college; and then I quit before I flunked out because I never learned study skills.

lotsofpulp1y ago

Bachelors level education by age 20 is a reasonable goal by age 2, and masters by 22.

9999000009991y ago

You can straight up attend community college while in high school. That's what I did, tons of fun. Then I failed a couple of online classes because I wasn't really taking them seriously.

Then I took in person classes at 18/19, fixed my GPA and generally did well. The only classes I really struggled with was Japanese and later French.

With Japanese I pissed my Korean girlfriend off, and had to drop it. French I took for a pass/no pass and absolutely failed.

You absolutely can get a BA by 20, but I'd be more interested in WHY you'd want to speed run academia. Sounds really stressful...

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Spivak1y ago

So the AP as a means of saving $$$ loophole has been hard closed.

thfuran1y ago

I think you're extrapolating a lot from a single datapoint.

Spivak1y ago

vidanay1y ago

Between AP and dual credit, my kid should graduate HS with somewhere around 30 hours of college credit.

GauntletWizard1y ago

I made it to College half a semester off from being a Junior. You can get a ton of college credit before college; and then I quit before I flunked out because I never learned study skills.

lotsofpulp1y ago

Bachelors level education by age 20 is a reasonable goal by age 2, and masters by 22.

9999000009991y ago

You can straight up attend community college while in high school. That's what I did, tons of fun. Then I failed a couple of online classes because I wasn't really taking them seriously.

Then I took in person classes at 18/19, fixed my GPA and generally did well. The only classes I really struggled with was Japanese and later French.

With Japanese I pissed my Korean girlfriend off, and had to drop it. French I took for a pass/no pass and absolutely failed.

You absolutely can get a BA by 20, but I'd be more interested in WHY you'd want to speed run academia. Sounds really stressful...

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