<p>Is it true that Florida state students are required to a summer residency requirement of 9 credit hours?</p>
<p>can some one please explain.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Yes. This was passed by the legislature awhile back. It was because a good bit of the resources of the university sit idle over the summer. So all Florida residents who are university students have to take 9 summer hours at a university. You can do it at home one summer if you live near a Florida U, but you can’t use summer CC credits. You are exempt if you have 9 hours of AP or 9 hours of dual enrollment or a combination, or an AA. Crazy thing, if you have 8 hours, they don’t count at all You have to have 9 hours or more AP/DE or you have to take 9 hours of summer.</p>
<p>I believe you can request a waiver for hardship if you have work full time and can prove that that income is necesary to stay in school or support yourself. I believe you go through the Dean of Students.</p>
<p>It does not have to be 9 hours all in one summer. You can do summer B one year and summer A the next. To be honest, quite a few students get to the point where they want to stay summer. Their friends are staying, they have a one year lease on an apartment, they get a job locally, etc.</p>
<p>you know I was wondering the same thing because my sister was telling me something about that when I went for preview but I didn’t believe her…</p>
<p>im going for summer. does anyone have any suggestions as far as how many classes to take? i already have enough ap credits that i wouldnt have to take 3 classes to get the 9credit requirement, would taking two classes be a bad idea?</p>
<p>When you come with AP or DE credit they have to be 9 OR MORE hours of equivalent credit to get out of the summer requirement. If you have less than 9 hours you have to START OVER AT ZERO for summer hours. Say you have 3 or 6 hours from AP or DE. None of it counts. If you have 9 hours, all of it counts. Don’t ask me why, but that is how they do it…</p>
<p>When you come as a freshman to Summer C a full load is 6 hours as the semester is only 6 weeks. Usual semester is 15 weeks, 15 hours considered full. A 6 week semester is 2/5’s the length of a 15 week semester so class has to meet more than twice as often. So 6 semester hours is a full load.</p>
<p>The summer residency requirement is state law. You need to sit down with an advisor or call the advisor on the telephone. Summer residency requirements are strictly enforced at most of the Florida public universities but some schools may make certain exceptions while others do not. </p>
<p>When deciding how many credits to take over the summer be careful to take into account that schools in Florida have 3 different summer terms and one term ends very quickly. So what may be doable over one of the longer ones, would not be feasible during the concetrated one.</p>
<p>Wait, so if I have 4 credits from AP Phys B, 3 from AP Stats, and credit for MAC1105 (for above 30 on ACT math, not sure how many credits are awarded for it, but I’m guessing 3?) I’d be good to go? No summer? I’m also taking 3 AP exams, and am confident I will be bringing 4 credits from AP Calculus at least, so I’m sure I’ll have 9 and over…</p>
<p>How are credit hours from AP classes calculated? Your Score on the AP Exam?</p>
<p>Yup. [FSU</a> Admissions | Credit | AP Credit](<a href=“http://www.fsu.edu/students/prospective/admissions/credit/apcredit.html]FSU”>http://www.fsu.edu/students/prospective/admissions/credit/apcredit.html)</p>
<p>Got it. Thanks! :)</p>
<p>AP/IB/DE definately counts, I do not know if SAT credit counts or does not count. Ask admission. But if you get 3 more from AP testing this year YOUR FINE.</p>
<p>Awesome! 
That makes me happy, as I will barely get to see my family even with the normal fall-spring schedule!!</p>
<p>Anyone know if CLEP credits count also?</p>