<p>Scenario:</p>
<p>UCLA
-Minor: Language Teaching
-Major: Linguistics
Finish in 3 years</p>
<p>Columbia
-TESOL Program (Teachers College)
Finish in 2 years</p>
<p>(I would have at least 40 college credits when entering college)</p>
<p>Do you think it is possible? Why or why not?</p>
<p>wow, is this a practice quiz or a final?</p>
<p>Sit down and map out the courses you need to take. Look up in a course catalogue and try to make a 3 year schedule at UCLA and see how that works for you.</p>
<p>@BrownParent I think with around 8 courses a semester it will be possible.</p>
<p>That’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>@BrownParent Well it would be $40,000+ cheaper… how many classes are normally taken per semester??</p>
<p>4 or 5 is usually the max. You will have to see if 8 is even allowed, but you would never be able to schedule that.</p>
<p>@BrownParent I will see what I can do, it’s just a thought, but thanks for the advice!!</p>
<p>8 courses per semester would be insane. College is not high school. </p>
<p>Saving money is a good thing, but you don’t want to kill yourself or compromise your grades in the name of saving it. </p>
<p>It’s even more insane given that UCLA is on a trimester system.</p>
<p>@skieurope in that case it would be about 6 per trimester.</p>
<p>That wouldn’t be as bad… @comfortablycurt @BrownParent </p>
<p>I’ve seen someone do 24 semester units with a job at Berkeley, but still wants to finish in 4 years instead of 2 for the college experience.</p>
<p>@tangentline I would take the one year tuition over the senior year of college anyway (and I am planning on going to grad school so I won’t really be leaving the whole college scene anyway) </p>
<p>What does 24 semester units really mean? How many classes is that in a year? Thanks!</p>
<p>This means, 8 classes a semester. If you actually average 20 units which I think for a motivated person can handle it’ll be 6-7 classes a semester… Depends on the person as I’ve done 18 and it wasn’t too bad.</p>
<p>Personally I can do 3 years in engineering with 15.66 units / semester which is a relatively normal load, just that I have a lot of AP credits</p>
<p>There’s a difference between doing a semester of 18+ credit hours, and doing 3 years straight with 18+ credit hour semesters. </p>
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<p>For one thing, it means you’re above UCLA’s limit for the amount of units your allowed to take per quarter (<a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/soc/enroll.htm”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/soc/enroll.htm</a>). You’d have to petition every quarter to take 24 units (on a quarter system, classes are typically 4 units, so 24 units would be about 6 classes, give or take), and I doubt they’ll grant it without an extraordinarily good reason, especially your first quarter.</p>
<p>Make a plan for you what you want to do and consider all of the requirements of your school, including maximum number of units you can take per quarter, the minimum number of units required to graduate or to complete your major and minor, requirements for your major/minor, graduation requirements, and GE/distribution requirements. Remember that some courses may only be offered once per year and classes may have scheduling conflicts (and you’ll face even more scheduling conflicts the more units you take). In the meantime, you’ll want to spend time in college doing things besides school: getting internships, doing research, teaching, etc–whatever will make you a more competitive applicant for graduate school or in the job market. Your GPA will likely matter, as well, if you’re applying to graduate school so you don’t want to hurt it by overloading your class schedule. If you come up with a do-able plan, then just try it your first quarter and see how it goes. You’ll figure out pretty quickly if it’s reasonable for you or not.</p>
<p>Is it possible? Probably. Should you do it? It depends.</p>
<p>Being on a trimester system isn’t really going to make a whole lot of difference. You’re still going to be covering the same content and amount of content. It’s just structured in a slightly different way. </p>
<p>I took 21 credit hours both semesters last year. It was a very rough course load, and I’ll never do it again. I wouldn’t advise anyone to take it on. </p>
<p>Yes. My daughter is doing it. She had like 27 credits going into Undergraduate at Binghamton because she got the IB Diploma in high school…a summer course here and there and she graduated in 2.5 years. She never had to overload classes. She is now at Columbia Teachers College and will graduate with a Masters in Secondary Math Education in 1.5 years.</p>
<p>@bopper thanks!! that is very inspiring, now I have an idol ^:)^ </p>