<p>Just wondering. More and more students are graduating in five years, but I was wondering about the likelihood of many people on CC taking three, for whatever reason.</p>
<p>I'd like to, but chances are good that I won't. I'm looking into CLEPing out of a few classes (History, Psych, and Spanish), but I don't know how much that's going to help.</p>
<p>One of my friends is going for 2.5 years.Personally, though, I can't imagine wanting to get through your college years as fast as you possibly can.</p>
<p>I don't know what you mean by graduating but it is possible to do a graduate degree at the same time or in your last year and graduate in 4 with both degrees. Most of the folks I know are doing some version of that rather than leaving school in 3 years.</p>
<p>She means getting your undergrad, I'm assuming.</p>
<p>And ShadowOfAnEnigma, I used to feel that way, too. But then I realized that I don't have enough money to really do much in college except school and free stuff. I'm not some social butterfly with a ton of friends (that eliminates the urge to booze it up or go to a lot of parties), and frankly these gen. ed classes are kicking my butt. I think that's the reason a lot of people try to finish college early because they want to get through the core curriculum first. I don't know about your school or anybody elses, but down here you have to have 60 creds of core classes. Ugh.</p>
<p>I just graduated after three years and I'm thrilled I did. But I am now in grad school and the fact that I knew I would be pursuing graduate studies was a factor in my decision to graduate early.</p>
<p>This always confuses me a bit because it seems like it should not be possible. The people that do it must have to take a lot of ged ed and elective classes and not a whole lot of classes related to their major in order to do it, otherwise it wouldn't work. </p>
<p>At my school, it's not possible for anyone to do it. Every major has a long string of required classes that are prerequisites for one another, so there are certain classes you have to take your freshman year to take the classes you need in sophomore year, and so on until senior year. It's not possible to skip ahead. I guess other schools must work much differently, even though they take even less classes than we do there.</p>
<p>A lot of students here graduate in 5 years because that's how their programs are set up. We also have a lot of grad programs that select students can get into and start on in their senior year, which means they're here for a total of 5 years but walk away with their master's as well. I didn't really want two degrees in the same subject so I opted not to do this.</p>
<p>If i stay on course and continue to take 15 credits per semester I can graduate the fall of my senior year which would obviously be 3.5 years. My goal in life was not to graduate early but I took some dual enrollment classes so I can get a few gen-ed classes out of the way for FREE(i love that word).</p>
<p>I was looking at graduating in three years, it's possible at my school, but the chances are slim; it would just require too much. 3.5 is more realistic for me, I may just use the last semester to explore some other subjects that I'm interested in. My only complaint at my school is there are so many general requirements, it gives you a little chance to explore outside the box into other subjects.</p>
<p>I will graduate in 3 years in an engineering program and have two minors as well. It isn't something that I really planned on but I don't want to stick around for an extra year and take on some more useless minors, etc for the mere $30K a year. That's money I can put towards grad school... likely 4 years of grad school and at probably $45K/yr for gradschool I need to conserve my money.</p>
<p>I'll be graduating in three years or less, if I don't decide to transfer twice. Mainly an issue of conserving money for graduate studies. I should have enough units to transfer out of a CCC in one year instead of two; depending on where I end up and what summer classes I can take, it's possible I might finish before the two years allotted after transfer as well.</p>
<p>Business Economics major, Accounting minor btw.</p>
<p>i could....but i want to live out the college life to the max.</p>
<p>My friend did 3 years at W&M easily.</p>
<p>I want to finish in 2.5-3 years because I'm probably definetely going to medical school. Also you could go for a job with the extra year and do like part time in college.</p>
<p>I'm set to graduate in 2.5 years. This is my senior year. Yay!</p>
<p>I have enough credits to graduate early, but I'm honestly trying to stay as long as I can. College is amazing, there's no point in leaving. I think I'm taking a redshirt this year for track, so if I can work out scholarship issues I'm going to try to stay an extra year (my family is poor and wants/needs me to graduate early unless I can figure something out with this money issue).
I'll probably finish with classes in 3-3.5 years but stick around for 5 just for the sake of athletics.</p>