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This is a good idea, but I still think you should spend four years in college after you graduate from high school. The best way to prepare for grad school is to take graduate-level classes, do research (or whatever the equivalent is in your field), and develop good professional relationships with professors so they’ll write really good recommendation letters. The more time you have to do this, the better. I took college classes full time in my senior year, so I essentially get five “paid-for” years of undergrad (my scholarship lasts four years) while most people only get four. My hope is that this additional experience will make me more competitive for grad school.
The short answer is that I think it’s a great program and I highly recommend it. I responded to this question in more detail on someone else’s thread back in March. [url=<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1627595-pseo-advice.html]Here[/url”>PSEO Advice? - High School Life - College Confidential Forums]Here[/url</a>] it is.
This depends entirely on where you plan to go to college (some colleges, especially private schools, make it difficult to transfer college classes taken in high school) and what classes you take. Different colleges have different general education requirements. The number of requirements depends a lot on the philosophical bent of the university, whether they favor an open curriculum or a more classical/structured one.
Most of my PSEOP classes were lower-division (and a couple of upper-level) classes in my major rather than classes intended to meet general education requirements. I did PSEOP partially because I wanted to find out if I ought to major in math. However, I’ll be able to fulfill most of my general education requirements (at a private university) using five 4s and 5s on AP tests.</p>