<p>planner03 - thanks for the heads up. My son takes a combination of concurrent ed and PSEO (community college classes). It sounds like cornell would disallow most of his credits, since the majority of the PSEO credits are for core classes. </p>
<p>Doesnt this put that college at a disadvantage ? If school A takes the credits but school B doesnt, its going to be a hard sell to go to school B.</p>
<p>D2 went into college with 35 hours (Dual & AP combined). She can’t graduate early because of the sequencing of classes required. But what it did was afford her much more room for practicing and getting other classes out of the way. Her senior year, she will only be required to take 9 hours a semester. She may take 12 in order to remain full-time, we’ll see. She has to practice about 14 hours a week outside of class at a minimum - so having her core curriculum out of the way has made more of those hours available.</p>
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<p>Depends on the motivation of the student. A student from a wealthy family may not be especially motivated to graduate early, especially from a college with a more “structured four year experience” (as is more common at highly selective private schools). A student from a poor or middle income family may be less motivated to graduate early at schools where non-loan financial aid is generous (among private schools, these are usually among the more selective ones, though not all most selective schools are generous).</p>
<p>But a more typical student from a middle income family whose choices are not super-generous with financial aid may have more of a motivation to graduate early (or have the AP and other incoming credit units as a buffer against graduating late).</p>
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<p>In the short term, yes, especially if the students a school attracts tend to be price conscious. In the long run, maybe not. If a school were to have a large number of 3 year graduates, it recieves just 3 years of tuition and other revenue from each of those graduates and it finds itself in a postion of needing to recruit more. Now, for those schools with the highest ratings, this would not be a problem. However, the number of high school graduates has been declining since 2009. Most schools face a shrinking supply of traditional-aged students.</p>
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<p>For state universities, the economics from the school’s point of view favors students graduating as quickly as possible, in order to use less in-state tuition subsidy for each student.</p>
<p>This worked well for my children. My oldest brought in enough credits to graduate in 3 years.
We had planned to allow him to stay for 3 1/2 years but then there was an opportunity to apply for a grad assistantship but in order to apply, he had to graduate in 3 years. He decided to apply for the grad assistantship - and fortunately he did get accepted in that program. So, college done in 3 years and grad school paid for. Had he not graduated early, the program he applied for would not have been an option for him later as it is not offered every year. </p>
<p>My daughter also brought in many CC credits with her (all earned during high school) and it looks like she will graduate in 2 1/2 years. </p>
<p>They both went to college on large scholarships, but we were still spending several thousand a year on tuition. The savings gained by them graduating early has been very helpful to us. Esp when two of our children decided to get married while we were still in the midst of paying college tuition! </p>
<p>Yes, we are big fans of graduating from college early. :-)<br>
I know it is not best for everyone, but for my children, it worked out very well.<br>
It’s great to have options!</p>