<p>How many people are considering schools with 4-1-4 schedules? Those schools usually only require 32 units (or equivalent credits) to graduate. So you can take 9 units each year and 5 units over 2 summers and easily finish in 3 years… </p>
<p>Some of the 4-1-4 schools will actually let you do 5-1-5 at no extra cost, which would mean you could do it in 3 years, with no summer courses/tuition(use summers for internships) or graduate even sooner if you take summer classes.</p>
<p>So you finish sooner and have an extra year or more of work experience on your resume and an extra year of earnings to accumulate with one less year of college expenses.</p>
<p>I know a girl who did this. She went to a 4-1-4 LAC, took advantage of a 5-1-5 schedule at no extra cost. Then in the summer she went to her local public and was able to take 3 courses in each summer session, which transferred back to 6 units in 2 months:</p>
<p>Her calender looked like this:
Freshman Year: 4-1-5 - 10 units
Summer B/n Freshman & Summer: 3-3 - 6 units
Sophomore Year: 5-1-5 - 11 units
Summer B/n Sophomore & Senior Year - Internship
Senior Year: 5-0-0 - 5 units
Graduated in 2.5 years. So it was only 2.5 years LAC expenses, plus 6 very inexpensive summer courses at local public. Worked well because there wasn’t a lot of pre-req’s in her major.</p>