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<p>My guess: She'll be applying to transfer to a different law school after she gets her first semester grades at Wayne State. Or maybe not. She's obviously a driven achiever, with a unique career path. She may not need a name-brand law school to do what she wants.</p>
<p>The University of Chicago used to be very liberal in awarding credits based on its own placement exams. I have talked to a number of alums from the 40s/50s who remember people graduating in a year based solely on internal exams (i.e., no APs, no imported college credits). That would be impossible now, I think, because of changes in how its core curriculum is configured.</p>
<p>Most of us will likely live into our eighties... life is too long to front load all of the interesting stuff in our youth.</p>
<p>Wow, didn't realize she was a commuter living at home on top of that heavy course load: <a href="http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007704250422%5B/url%5D">http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007704250422</a></p>
<p>Maybe she finds it's a challenge to graduate in one year. I did in 3 year for undergraduate but now I'm older and wiser, I advise my daughter to take her time in college.</p>
<p>I wonder what her e.c.s were in high school.</p>
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<p>She goes to the movies with her friends and hangs out in Birmingham. She has a boyfriend, Andy Grimm. She likes to spend Saturdays eating fried pickles with her mom at a favorite restaurant in Clarkston.</p>
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i'd like to know how in the world she coordinated a schedule of 27 credit hours. i'm doing good to get the 15 i need each semester to work
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<p>I don't know, but I did go to college with someone who completed 300 quarter hours (about 200 semester hours) in five years and earned five bachelor's degrees. Most people thought he was a little odd...</p>
<p>Read to a small child for three hours a day? Live at home during college? To each his own.</p>
<p>Doesn't sound like she had much time to develop personally in college. Also, I'm not too impressed by her destination next year- a fourth tier law school. It's great that she's a compulsive worker and all, but I'd rather hear about someone who's done something or will be doing something productive. A Rhodes Scholar, maybe?</p>
<p>We didn't let my son use any of his IB credits. We felt he needed four years of college. It could be different for the person in the article though.</p>
<p>The best story I've ever heard was a friend of my dads who graduated from Columbia at the age of 21 with an M.D./PHD. Don't ask me how he did it.</p>
<p>I'm assuming this girl didn't go to the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I can't see someone with a 4.0, who graduated in a year going to Wayne State University. I've never even heard of Wayne State University.</p>
<p>Amen nasaizmylife! Son is at 17 hours both fall and spring semesters of this year as a freshman majoring in engineering and barely has time to eat!! I really don't think this student must do anything BUT study--what about a social life??? At the other end of the spectrum however, is son's roommate taking 13 or 14 hours and in bed by 11 p.m.</p>
<p>Actually she did go to U.Michigan, Ann Arbor. Who knows why she is going to Waynes State? Other posters have said that the family is very well off (Bloomington Hills etc.) so it couldn't be a full ride?</p>
<p>What surprises me more is the fact that UM is granting her a degree when 2/3 of her credits do not appear to be from UM. Isn't there usually some maximum # of credits that you can apply from Community College, AP scores etc?</p>
<p>My condolences to the young lady. She just lost four formative years in which she could have experienced and learned about herself and grow. College is for more than just academics. (And I am NOT talking about drinking and partying!) Never a child. Sigh! Quite frankly, what classes was she taking that she could take so many hours? Obviously not huge lab requirements, or even lots of papers. Research even for geniuses takes a lot of time. I don't get it. D has a minimum of 2 papers a week, every week, this semester! She is just snowed under. Perhaps the school needs to look at its course requirements, and how much it is actually teaching the kids. As a lawyer, most of her clients will be older. I wouldn't take someone's advice that seriously if they were that young. Not enough life experience. To me, this is not something to laud, but something to decry. Why didn't her parents try to get her to slow down and have a life? I feel sorry for her.</p>