<p>Thinking of this amazingly expensive education, I am considering trying to graudate from Cornell within six semesters, not eight. </p>
<p>I found that in order to graduate, I need to fulfill 120 credits, meaning I have to take at least 20 credits per one semester. However, the requirement page I found on the website states that a student cannot take more than 5 courses per semester. Considering courses are mostly either 3 or 4 credits, I need to either take all five 4 credit courses per semester or abandon the early graduation plan. Again, because freshman and sophomore year required courses are mostly 3 credit courses, I assume the plan is actually impossible.</p>
<p>Is the early graduation, as I calculated, impossible? </p>
<p>I heard one of my high school graudate who went to Cornell graduated early though.</p>
<p>How does it work actually?</p>
<p>Thank you~</p>
<p>lets assume u get around 18 credits per semester on average for the six semesters. So u ll be missing 12 credits in order to graduate early. I guess you would have to do summer courses in order to complete the required 120 credits</p>
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<p>Not true. Unless the policy drastically changed, plenty of students take six, even seven courses a semester. I even read of one kid who took 30 credits a semester.</p>
<p>And plenty of students graduate early, especially with AP credit. I could have graduated after three years, but chose to stick around to write a thesis. Not certain if the thesis was worth it, but the memories sure were.</p>
<p>Others graduate early but continue to live in Ithaca with their friends, working for the University or pursuing other endeavors.</p>
<p>And I found some of my AP scores can be used to get 4~5 freshman and sophomore required course credits. Does it mean that I can take extra elective courses per semester to get credits added up to my early graduation plan? The 5 course maximum policy is what I am concerning about..</p>
<p>Ah, summer courses! thanks~</p>
<p>You can graduate in 3 years....but you'll have to fit in 120 credits, fulfill your college graduation requirements and your major's requirements. It's harder to graduate early in CAS but easier in CALS/ILR/Eng (I had 3 friends grad. early).</p>
<p>Take advantage of any AP credit you might have, plan your 3 years out with your advisor and you may need to consider summer courses. Although my friends who graduated early did not need to do summer courses.</p>
<p>Oh, i must have misunderstood the web page, thanks! 30credits per semester..wow</p>
<p>ivyconfidential- summer classes are pretty expensive as well, and are not included in the 45k you pay for the school year. Doing 2 summer sessions might just equal to how much a semester costs anyways.</p>
<p>Would you want to graduate early if there was no money problem guys? Well, I guess I wouldn't since every day every year there will be full of memories, both good and bad. Especially the last (4th) year will be most memorable just as HS senior is so great, and I wouldn't want to miss such a great experience.</p>
<p>If there weren't money concerns, I would have stayed for five years. Another year living in Ithaca, studying interesting things? Pure bliss.</p>