<p>Has anyone heard of a bill passing that would prevent FSU and UF from accepting any dual enrollment/AP/IB credits? One of my friends told me about it, but it sounded totally bogus. I just wanna make sure its false, before i turn down UCF.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard of anything. And if such a bill did pass, it would be rather difficult to enforce for this year’s entering class, considering that thousands of students have already told FSU they would be enrolling come either Summer or Fall- and no doubt many of those students would have AP/IB/Dual Enrollment credits. </p>
<p>I would ask your friend where they heard of such a bill and to produce proof of its existence personally.</p>
<p>This reminds me of a rumor that was going around during my Senior year, which was that in late September (around 3 weeks before the application deadline) FSU had already stopped taking Fall applicants. The rumor was completely false, of course, and what was actually the case was that FSU had stopped taking Spring semester applicants, as they had reached their limits for that semester.</p>
<p>Long story short: Don’t believe every rumor you hear. Unless you can find evidence of it somewhere (and I couldn’t, although I didn’t search very much), don’t take it as truth. If it’s something with wide-reaching impacts like the bill your friend supposedly has heard of, it would be in the news. Everywhere.</p>
<p>I think your friend was referring to this bill, which passed the House on Friday</p>
<p>[Florida</a> college graduation requirements could change | StAugustine.com](<a href=“Florida college graduation requirements could change”>Florida college graduation requirements could change)</p>
<p>If the bill becomes law, certain classes would have to be taken at UF and FSU and AP/DE could not be used to fulfill these requirements. The article does not state that these two universities will not be accepting any AP or DE credits.</p>
<p>If the bill passes, I doubt it will go into effect for the incoming freshman of 2012.</p>
<p>Yea. The friend was maybe referring to lines 145-155 in the Preeminent Universities bill. The House and Senate bills are identical.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/1752/BillText/c2/HTML[/url]”>http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/1752/BillText/c2/HTML</a></p>
<p>In the St. Augustine newspaper article posted above, what’s that nonsense at end of story about University requirement to track employment and earnings of graduates? I gotta check that out; what I do after graduating is my business–not the state’s!</p>
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<p>I am not 100% sure, but doesn’t that say that the number would only possibly be limited? Already I think that FSU and UF only allow 45 credits anyway. </p>
<p>Heck, most of the degrees at FSU that I’ve looked at require credits in those areas anyway. I know that most degrees require a Public Speaking course. I was planning to take that my first semester to get it out of the way, but it was randomly credited on my transcripts during Orientation. Never could figure out why, all I know is that it was.</p>
<p>Yeah, while searching to find what he could be talking about, I found the bill proposing the 3-4 required courses. Its a pretty weird idea. I feel like it would be a major inconvenience for those entering universities with no college credits at all. Not sure how they could graduate in 4 years without taking full summer loads. On the plus side, none of it would come into effect until 2014. Guess I’m in the clear either way(: </p>
<p>Just glad to know my 27 dual enrollment credits won’t go to waste!!</p>
<p>Pasbal, I found this on Advising First FAQs:</p>
<p>How do I become exempt for the oral competency requirement ?
Students who have earned a B or higher in a high school oral communication or speech class or who were part of a high school debate team are eligible for exemption. Students can also be exempt if they have taken a public speaking course at another college. Please see the Office of Undergraduate Studies in Room 3400 University Center A or call them at (850) 644-2451 if you think you have satisfied this requirement. </p>
<p>Do you know if we will be grandfathered in the old rules that if we enter FSU with at least 9 accelerated credits, we won’t have to do any summer sessions?</p>
<p>I know about those ways to get out of the public speaking requirement. Since I didn’t meet any of them, that was why I was very confused about it. But hey, I’m not going to complain getting out of any class like that. I’m guessing though that having been in IB and that requiring multiple presentations/speeches and everything was what got it waived. </p>
<p>For the summer session requirement, I doubt it will change. If there’s anything related to it changing, I haven’t seen it in writing anywhere at least. I wouldn’t expect it to impact anyone that is currently attending FSU or UF, or the incoming class at least.</p>
<p>Then again, when the first round of Bright Futures changes were announced, I said the same phrase, so…</p>
<p>I did read somewhere that they were going to change the rules so that everyone had to do some summer sessions, whether you came in with AP/IB credits or not. I just don’t know if and when it goes into effect, if they can require all current upperclass students to attend in the summer.</p>
<p>I do remember hearing something about that being considered, but I don’t know if anything ever actually came of the debate. </p>
<p>I would think though that there really wouldn’t be any easy way to require currently-enrolled students (at least, if not the newly enrolling students as well) to attend a summer semester, especially if doing so would be a waste, especially since many majors don’t offer classes during the summer that meet degree requirements.</p>