Someone had told me that World Campus is the online school for PSU and there is no limit to how many credits you could take. Hypothetically, someone could take 30 credits a semester. Or they could do 21 (Fall), 21 (Spring), 18 (Summer). They would reach 60 credits by the end of their freshman year and transfer to University Park there sophomore year? I was told once you reach 60 credits on the World Campus, you’re eligible to transfer to UP.
That schedule would be inordinately difficult and your grades would suffer. Not to mention many classes are taken in succession so that you can’t take one without having taken the other first and entry to major requirements come with GPA requirements, etc…Logistically, it’d be a nightmare. Ultimately, Penn State can deny scheduling that many credits and they likely would for a first semester freshman.
Each credit is equal to 45 hours of work. That means if you take 21 credits x 45 hours per credit and divide by the number of weeks in a semester, you are taking on 63 hours of work A WEEK to maintain that schedule and be successful. That’s 9 hours a day, every single day.
With your history of ADHD and Aspergers and your 2.8 GPA in high school, I think that this type of schedule would make it very, very difficult to maintain a decent GPA. It would be for anyone. You haven’t yet started college so perhaps you don’t know that college classes, especially at Penn State, are rigorous. Many students only take 12 credits a semester to be successful. I took 21 credits my last semester at Penn State so that I could graduate with my friends and it almost killed me. I cannot imagine doing that more than one semester without burning out of school completely. Nor do I think Penn State would let you for all of the reasons I mentioned above.
Hang out at a commonwealth campus for 2 years, get really good grades and get to UP campus in good time when you are ready. That’s going to be the advice of most people here. Put one of the commonwealth campuses that are colleges in their own right, Behrend, Altoona, Harrisburg…and those two years will be fine. 60% of ALL PSU grads did 2 years at a commonwealth first.