<p>I was admitted to UMN a while ago and into honors program, and will most probably be going there to major in Economics B.S - Honors. </p>
<p>I am very ambitious and want to finish in two years (Fall/Spring/Summer x2)
I will graduate high school with 41 credits and the following requirements via AP tests:
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[<em>] Mathematical Thinking Core
[</em>] Physical Science/Lab
[<em>] Social Science
[</em>] Biological Science/Lab + Environmental Theme
[<em>] Historical Perspectives Core + Global Perspectives Theme
[</em>] Literature Core
[/ul]
I also have a strong knowledge of economics and math (Intermediate Econ levels and Multivariable Calc/Linear Algebra) although ill have to retake those levels in university. </p>
<p>I have some questions however.</p>
<p>For the Honors Requirement, I need 6 honors classes and 7 honors experiences over freshman~senior year.
Do I just take that many classes? And how do honors experiences work?</p>
<p>Dawg, I don’t go to UMN (actually go to UVA), but don’t try and graduate in 2 years if you’re only bringing in 41 credits. I can guarantee you that you will absolutely hate your college experience and crash and burn your first semester of college if you do that. Especially if you start taking upper level econ and math courses first semester. </p>
<p>You need 120 credits to graduate (checked UMN website). Do you really want to take about 20 credits a semester? Take 15 and see how hard it is to 4.0 that. </p>
<p>Final verdict, 3 years yes, possibly. 2 years, no, just no.</p>
<p>I graduated from UTexas in 2 years … BA in Computer Science … I had originally planned to do it in 3, but UT tripled out of state tuition in 1985 (from $40/hr to $120/hr) … so I decided to suck it up and get it done as fast as I could. In retrospect I should have just kept to the original plan …</p>
<p>I missed out on getting a 2nd major (a couple classes shy in Math) and studying other areas that interested me (economics being one). I also had one miserable Fall semester in 1985 with 4 upper-division computer science classes and my GPA suffered … though in the end it didn’t matter as I got into my top-choice graduate school (UIUC).</p>
<p>Do it in 3!!! That’s what my daughter who was accepted to UM to study economics is planning on doing.</p>
<p>Wow … it is also interesting to note that OOS tuition at UT has gone up approximately 28 times in 28 years …</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Victor</p>
<p>I’m not sure what economics classes are offered during the summer so maybe it’s possible but it seems like an extremely bad idea unless you’ve taken a number of college classes before. Unless you have some great reason that you need to graduate in 2 years I would recommend 3. I’m not really sure how the honors program works.</p>