<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am planning to graduate from college early (three years in total). How do I indicate this on my resume smoothly?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>My DD graduated early. Her resume listed: Expected graduation date. Once she actually graduated, she listed the actual date. She did NOT list her date of high school graduation, her HS GPA, nor her age. However, she did include her college GPA, and her degrees/Summa Cum Laude.
I hope this helps.
~APOL-a Mum</p>
<p>I graduated in 2 years, and made a point to communicate it on my resume. Finishing early is a way of telling employers that you are better than others.</p>
<p>If you want, pm and I can send you my resume for reference.</p>
<p>I graduated a semester early, and it was a simple matter of putting my expected graduation date on my resume. Graduating early does NOT mean that you are a better hire for a company. Although you may have worked hard to finish early, that does not, alone, indicate that you will have the maturity needed to work at any given company, so the advantages of graduating a year early are offset by the fact that you are probably only going to be 20 or 21 when you enter the workforce.</p>
<p>What I’m saying is that you may get a recruiter to notice you if you tack on that high school graduation date and show that you’re graduating in three years with a four year degree, but your interview will be especially important so that you can show what you bring to the table.</p>
<p>Hope all goes well!</p>
<p>I disagree with some. An early graduation should not be incorporated in a resume. Age really shouldn’t. Those things should be reserved for an interview, or maybe an application letter.</p>
<p>I mean, put in dates, but don’t explain them.</p>
<p>Although many students take five years to graduate, AP credits and dual enrollment programs make it easier to graduate in three years. I would agree that it could be a paragraph in your cover letter.</p>
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<p>this sounds like an attitude you should be careful to avoid portraying in an interview.</p>
<p>Yeah! I never finish early. By saying “people who finish early are better” is likely to cost you. It means you are not a team-player.</p>
<p>It should be obvious that you don’t directly say that people who graduate early are better in a cover letter or interview. </p>
<p>To get a good job these days you need to be outstanding. Finishing early is something that sets you apart from everyone else. You should actively communicate that you have showed that you are capable by finishing school faster than peers, and let those who are in a position to hire you draw their own conclusions.</p>
<p>Finishing early probably means you worked the system, or the program you chose was easy, or your school isn’t that good. I hope I’m wrong, so why and how did you graduate early? </p>
<p>When did education become a race? I don’t want a doctor who finished his PhD early…</p>
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<p>When the college tuition bubble grew faster than the housing bubble.</p>
<p>ahhh :)</p>
<p>tHANKS!</p>
<p>Yes - for those who criticize early graduates, take a look at the financial benefits. </p>
<p>One year at 40k tuition (~20k if not at a private school) + 60k in potential earnings is a 100k total gain per year. Do you know what 100k is to a 20 year old? F()ck!ng huge. Not to mention you learn more working than in school. Employers value experience, not time sitting in a classroom learning something irrelevant like history or a useless language like Italian.</p>
<p>But it’s free for me. all of my expenses are covered by the VA… plus FA. I actually make money here.</p>
<p>^ The opportunity cost remains. Nothing is really “free”.</p>
<p>What is an opportunity cost? Do you mean by attending college, you’re missing out on 60K? (or 100K). Why is it that I have never heard this theory about graduating early being better?</p>
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<p>Well, to make 60k you’d need to have at least a bachelor’s, but it also depends on your field. You don’t need too much of an education to work at McDonald’s… however, if you want a specialized career, like petroleum engineering, a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is crucial. People graduate early because it’s financially feasible, especially now. You need 120 credits for your degree – instead of taking 30 credits for your major and ~24 credits for gen-ed, it would make sense to double major and replace your elective class slots with something else. Credits are credits, so 3 credits toward an additional major or minor will count just as much as 3 credits for The Feminist View of Little Bo Peep & Her Sheep 101. </p>
<p>How does this tie into early graduation? AP credits (usually) allow you to place out of gen-ed courses, giving you earlier opportunities to specialize in what you want to do, which leads to graduating early. While your first job/internship may care about your major, it doesn’t matter the slightest once you have experience under your belt.</p>
<p>Ah, that’s how I thought it worked. My highschool didn’t offer AP classes though. Inflation seems to have changed things quite a bit since 2001. I made andout 11K per year in the Army, and I saved 20K. I regret not buying 20K of gold then. (It was like $300/ once). Since 2004, I have had no income… I lived off the GI Bill (ch 30) and then in 2008, I was living on food stamps and staying with my parents. There aren’t many jobs in Montana.</p>
<p>I just emailed the volunteer people and asked if they can switch my program from turtle conservation to teaching english.</p>
<p>I would tread lightly about writing about your early graduation as a strength or selling point. If you do mention it, it should be a very minor point. </p>
<p>I work at the HQ of a F50 company and many of my coworkers, including managers and directors, took longer than 4 years to graduate. I wouldn’t want to risk offending one of them, if they were the hiring manager for a position, by suggesting that graduating early is good and that by extention graduating late is bad.</p>
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