<p>Does anyone know if its possible to go through Wake Forest in three years? I would come into Wake with 28-32 credits through AP (The equivalent of a year of credits, including 8 of which that are required credits for major). My reason for wanting to go through in three years is predominantly monetary (It would be too expensive to pay for four years, but I can squeeze by in three). Since I assume there are a few students who come in with little to no AP credits so I do not see why this would not be possible, but if there are administrative stuff that might prevent me, that would be really helpful to know. P.S. I plan on calling the school on Monday, but I would like to get a sooner answer if possible.</p>
<p>Yes you can do it in 3 years. Especially if you take summer courses.</p>
<p>A friend of mine studied abroad and still graduated in 3 years. Another friend is graduating in May after only 3 years (and no summer school) and he’s pre-med.</p>
<p>I am able to easily graduate a semester early (3.5 yrs) but haven’t decided if I will do that or go part time</p>
<p>I think it will also depend on the major. Not sure how easy it would be to do this in Calloway, for example, as you apply as a sophomore and have a fairly set list of classes to take during junior and senior year. I guess that if you included summers - it might work.</p>
<p>Definitely not doing Calloway, I understand how that would be almost impossible. Thanks for the replies, that makes me hopeful. Anyone else have anything?</p>
<p>I also know someone who graduated in three years, though I’m not sure if she managed it through AP credits or through summer credits. The problem with AP credits (and this may have changed since I was there) is that they give you hours, but they don’t necessarily get you out of required classes. Since I graduated ('08) the divisional requirements may have changed enough that this is no longer a problem, but I started Wake with >1 semester credits, and I really only got out of like one course that I otherwise would have needed to take.</p>
<p>That said, my credits were really useful because in the Spring it let me register with the class above me (since I was technically a sophomore during the second half of my freshman year, a junior during the second half of my sophomore year, etc), and so I always got the classes I wanted because I was registering for them when almost no one else in my class was.</p>
<p>I feel like it really depends. If you are pre-med or business I would be inclined to say that this would be very difficult if not impossible to do, just based on workload, etc (this has less to do with credits and more to do with sheer number of classes/amount of work). I would be inclined to also say that this would be not too hard to do if you were just doing a major or a major and minor. I would look up your prospective majors’ course prerequisites to make sure this is possible.</p>
<p>Further, I had a friend in the business school who wanted to graduate in 3 years for monetary reasons. She was able to work it out with the business adviser to be taking business classes a bit earlier than scheduled (not sure if this would have ended up working out since she left to do volunteer work in Africa). However, it does show that advisors will work with you if this is your reasoning for wanting to be in classes that fill up rather quickly. </p>
<p>Summer school would definitely help with graduating in 3 years. Even more helpful would be if you were a super genius and could load up on credit hours.</p>
<p>It really depends. I finished Wake Forest in 3.5 years–my final semester I had 17.5 hours of credit.</p>
<p>It is all about planning.</p>
<p>def possible.</p>