<p>I'm in high school. The other day my teacher told me that her friend, who is a professor at the UW, was telling her that taking too many AP classes can actually put you at a disadvantage when it comes to the UW because you'll have to graduate before you want to. Is this actually something that happens? I want to spend the normal 4 years in college but I have a lot of transfer credit from running start so I'm a bit worried.</p>
<p>Depending on how many credits you have you might want to think about doing a double major/degree. If the normal 4 years is important enough to you to spend the extra money you can get your money’s worth.</p>
<p>Yes, they definitely can. You get a hold on your registration after 180 credits – [Satisfactory</a> Progress](<a href=“http://www.washington.edu/students/ugrad/advising/aif/satprog.html#180]Satisfactory”>http://www.washington.edu/students/ugrad/advising/aif/satprog.html#180) You can petition to take more classes but they can say no if they want. Normally if you are doing a good job (not failing, etc) they will grant your petition but with the budget cuts, this may change.</p>
<p>I reread your post a little more closely. Sorry – but if you are coming in with lots of credits, you will probably not be able to stay the whole four years. I also did Running Start and I entered with 84 transfer credits and 25 AP credits and I have had to fight tooth and nail to stay here for three years. I am getting two degrees (a BA & a BS) so that’s the only reason why I got to stay for three years. If you are only getting one degree, then you will probably have to finish within two years (or maybe two and a half).</p>
<p>Agree with UW Student. If you double major, throw in a minor, show the advisors/registration that you have a plan to graduate (show what classes you plan on taking, etc) then you shouldn’t have too much trouble. However, if you are only single majoring, that might be an issue.</p>
<p>That being said, there are some people who are close to hitting 300 credits, double major + a degree-ing, who have to work with advisors all the time to make sure they don’t get ‘kicked out’. It’ll be tedious, and at times very frustrating, but not impossible to have a TON of credits.</p>
<p>And I should clarify that you would probably have to do a double degree (not just a double major) in order to get more leeway in terms of credits. To do a double degree the minimum number of credits that you need is 225 – for a double major it’s still just 180.</p>
<p>depends on your major, most of the engineering departments will also force you to graduate after 2 years (once you started your upper division courses)</p>