<p>If a kid took 14 AP classes in high school and receives sufficient grades on the AP exams, will this allow him to graduate significantly early?</p>
<p>I notice that at some schools, the answer, surprisingly, is no.</p>
<p>At such schools, it just allows you to take fewer classes each semester, or allows you to knock off a few elective courses. But you still have prerequisities to take, so apparently, you don't graduate early, or maybe just one semester early.</p>
<p>How about at UF?????</p>
<p>To be honest, I might not be the best source since I’m not even enrolled yet, however, on UF’s website, you can see their AP credit policy.</p>
<p>It says that you can get up to 45 credits from APs
([University</a> of Florida - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.ufl.edu/ugrad/trapib.html]University”>Transfer - How to Apply - University of Florida)) </p>
<p>and it also gives a list of what classes give how many credits (and their equivalent class if you took it in UF)</p>
<p><a href=“https://catalog.ufl.edu/ugrad/current/advising/info/AP-examination-credit-info.aspx[/url]”>https://catalog.ufl.edu/ugrad/current/advising/info/AP-examination-credit-info.aspx</a></p>
<p>but the class equivalent has to be acceptable for the major, for example, even if you take AP statistics, you can get 3 credit for STA 2023, but that doesn’t mean it’ll do you any good, if you’re a math major, Calculus BC however would definitely help.</p>
<p>So if of the 14 APs the person in question took, they get 45 of those acceptable credits for their major, they will probably be gen ed courses, that should make a major dent in their graduation(1.5 years if you average 30 credits a year) </p>
<p>I don’t see any reason that you can’t graduate early, in UF, I mean, what would UF say “No, we made the AP policy as a prank!” and say your kid can’t graduate? And it’s not unheard of, to come in with no credits, and still graduate a semester or two early, if you had APs you could probably get it down to 1-2 years (with summers helping out), of course, one year would be a feat, but there was a student that did graduate in one-year from UVA </p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901779.html?nav=rss_print/asection[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901779.html?nav=rss_print/asection</a> </p>
<p>but the student it mentions did get 60 credits to transfer instead of 45 (and he was apparently brilliant, I wouldn’t doubt this), none the less, I’m under the impression that UVA is probably harder than UF. So, I’m pretty sure you can graduate a significant amount of time earlier, at the very least in UF</p>
<p>P.S. I plan to graduate early from UF (by a substantial amount) - and I just don’t see UF telling me that my APs are going to useless, if they did I’d go elsewhere. If the person you’re talking about wants talk with me so we can wallow in our ignorance feel free to PM me :D. </p>
<p>And DEs transfer up to 60 credits, at least 45 credits of the UF degree must be done at UF.</p>
<p>Yes, if the credits help him/her to complete all the requirements (i.e. Gen Eds, gordon rule) plus his/her major required courses, then the student is allowed to graduate early, the student would have to apply for graduation and that’s it.</p>
<p>My son is a freshman in his 2nd semester and he had 24 hours of AP credit when he started at UF. You can indeed graduate early as long as you can complete all of the tracking courses for the major. My son plans to graduate at either the end of his junior year or after the fall of his senior year or possibly double major.</p>
<p>It does depend on the major, somewhat. I can speak to both my kids (now S went to UCF, but it was handled the same way) and D goes to UF. She came in with above the 45 max credits you can count towards AP, so she’s not using it all. She’s a ChemE major, which is a major with a lot of credit hours required just to graduate, and it has very specific courses that need to be taken. In many cases undergrads w/o the AP credit (or very little AP credit) will need to take some summer classes, and it still might take them 4 1/2 - 5 years to graduate. D will graduate with a ChemE degree and a minor in 4 years (w/o taking a summer class). She’s been able to be a paid research assistant last summer, and this summer she has a paid internship position. She probably could have graduate in 3 1/2 years, if she’d taken a summer class or two, but her mentor encouraged her to take part in the research and internship opportunities.</p>
<p>S, who was at UCF, came in with about 35 hours in AP credit. He took no summer courses, and he had to actually slow down and take less classes some semesters so that he wouldn’t graduate early. Easily, he could have gotten his Economics degree (including all the requirements of the honors college) in 3 years. But he was applying to law school and typically it’s not encouraged to apply to law school at a younger age. I can say he was never overburdened, lol, with too many credits/semester. In fact, he worked half time all through college and full time in the summers.</p>
<p>zebes</p>