<p>I think you need to take some courses in the fields that interest you. The fact that you are looking at requirements for professional schools in three different areas (medicine, law, and business) suggests that you might not really know what you want when you finish your undergraduate degree. Finally, why are you in such a rush to graduate in one or two years? College is more than a path to a good paycheck. It’s a chance to grow intellectually and to discover what really excites you academically.</p>
<p>Thank you so much parents of the Parents Forum!</p>
<p>I do know that I want to do law [M&A, preferably doing a JD/MBA] , but I just included the others as I would still like to know.</p>
<p>Also, I think I can see why not to graduate early. I was offered to graduate early from high school, but I quickly said no. I then realized that the same reasons why I wanted to stay in high school were the same reasons I wanted to graduate early from college. </p>
<p>However, what would I do with all that AP credit? I am very interested in UN-type work [I set up my school’s first Model UN Team and do a lot of debate/foreign interest EC’s] so I would ideally like to study abroad at some point at The Hague or in Strausborg, France. Would the AP credit help with that? Or would I been confined to taking grad-level classes [I’m not complaining, apparently they are good for resumes and finding specialty-type fields]? Are there any other things to do with roughly 80-100 AP credits?</p>
<p>Thank you,
Apollo11</p>
<p>Also, in case I do flip-flop as any teenager invariably will [to be expected based upon the trending thread about intended major vs. actual major], would it be better to take the higher level science class that I’d be able to take with AP credit, or the class that the other pre-meds would take without AP credit?</p>
<p>For each university that interests you, you’ll probably need to find out how that school handles AP credits. As someone mentioned–there’s no universal rule. Each school is different. One college may give you actual credits for the AP courses, while another may not and the only benefit you get from an AP is that you can opt out of a distribution requirement (e.g., freshman composition) or you may be able to go directly into a higher level course without having to take any prerequisites. Given the many AP courses you have, it would be a good idea to speak directly to the admissions folks at any college to which you are applying to learn exactly what kind of credit you will get for the APs.</p>
<p>Based on your interest in the UN, you might want to consider majoring in International Relations. Take a look at Johns Hopkins University or Tufts University; both have strong undergraduate IR programs</p>
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<p>AP credits are not like coupons you can spend. Either the school accepts it for the degree or it doesn’t. Period. End of story. So, go find the college, look up the degree you want, and find out which AP’s are useful to you. That is the only way you are going to know what your deck of AP cards are worth.</p>
<p>Unlike High School, College degrees are mostly focused in one area, with a little breadth thrown in for diversity. The 24 AP’s you have are a mile wide, inch deep. The best you are likely to achieve is applying them to the breadth, but still required to take the core. Whether you can do all the core in 2 years is another question. Many classes have a specific sequence, and may not be offered all the time. You may end up only taking 2 years worth of classes, but it make take you 3 years to do it.</p>