<p>I'm not sure how every school works, but as far as I know, you need 24 credits to graduate from high school, with each full year class being a single credit, so it's almost as if you have to take 24 classes within the four years. After two years, I have 23 credits, meaning that I'll graduate with 37. </p>
<p>I know it's definitely not a negative thing, but is it all that special? I've yet to see anybody mention anything like this so far, so I've no idea if every competitive student has a similar number, or if other schools use the same system. </p>
<p>I'll have over 40 credits (30 needed to graduate). I never really thought about how "special" this scenario might be. It's not in the least bit typical for my high school, but then it is definitely not a competitive school.</p>
<p>Must be different for every school. We have a required 22 (used to be 24, but they're reducing the number of hours, and therefore the number of credits available/required) andI'll graduate with 27. The maximum number any person in my grade could have would be 29, which would mean dropping lunch in freshmen, sophmore, and junior year. It's not possible to drop lunch with the new schedules next year.</p>
<p>We need 120 credits to graduate (5 credits for most classes, some math and science ones are 6 or 7 because they have extra time for labs), which means 30 credits each year, or six classes. But almost everyone takes seven classes a year - six real classes + gym - so you can realistically fail one class each year and still graduate as long as it isn't a requirement for English, math, science, etc.</p>
<p>Hm at the end of my junior year I had 127 credits, which meant I could've graduated early. But my situation was an anomaly because I took three classes for credit over the last two summers and a lot of extra lab classes: three 6-credits and two 7-credits. Most people don't take any summer classes and only two 6-credit classes. Actually, at the end of senior year, I'll have 169 credits, which is way above what's needed. =P</p>
<p>In the end, the number of credits themselves won't be special, but the fact that you've taken extra classes and challenged yourself much more than is expected of you will stand out.</p>
<p>At my school you only need 21 to graduate. </p>
<p>Freshman year I had 8 credits.
This year (sophomore) I have 8.5 credits. </p>
<p>By the time I graduate I will have 33.5 credits without anything over the summer. Basically I couold graduate early because after junior year I will have 25 credits :).</p>
<p>All sophomores have enough to graduate by the end of their year at my school.</p>
<p>Then we have service credits (For being on teams, clubs, etc). I'm a service credit whxre. Most people earn an average of 100. I have 398. This COMPLETELY attests to my social life...</p>
<p>Wow... I don't understand those huge number of credits, or why the system wouldn't make it less credits earned per class. I like my system; we get 1/2 credit per semester (assuming we pass), meaning 1 a year per class (assuming it's a two-semester class), so it's 7 credits a year (the max. number of classes we take), which translates into 28 max. if you do nothing but the minimum and pass. I got my extra ones from summer classes, and some credit-by-exams.</p>
<p>Some of you also forget the credit you earn in middle school or through Dual Credit programs. So even if you only have 7 classes max, you can graduate with more than 28. I'll graduate with 29 and I only have 5 classes as a senior and I had 6 as a junior.</p>
<p>I got my extras through independent study (during the summer for a couple of them, during the school year for the rest) and homeschool credits (which aren't allowed to count towards graduation anymore, but I earned them before that rule came into effect). I got .33 credits for traffic safety, too (after-school class). :p </p>
<p>All courses at my school are one credit each and we have eight courses per year, so we can fail two courses during our high school careers and still pass. By the time I graduate I'll have 8 extra classes, plus I didn't fail any (and won't, unless something huge happens), so that makes 40... actually, 40.33. :p</p>
<p>I believe my school requires 21 (1 year long class=1 credit)- 6 frosh year, 6 soph, 5 junior and 4 senior year are the minimums, usually only the bottom 25% of kids do that. </p>
<p>People sometimes decide to graduate early (end of junior year, usually) if they have enough credits and just want to be out of high school. I easily could have, but it would have made playing soccer in college much more difficult. </p>
<p>I'm wondering, is this allowed everywhere? Or just AZ because we're about second to last in education nationwide..</p>
<p>I need 22 credits to graduate. I have two credits from m.s., and eight from freshman year. I'll have another 8.5 or nine sophomore year. So I have ten total before tenth grade, and I'll have 18.5 by the end of this year.</p>