<p>Okay, I'm in incoming freshman at TCU (Texas Christian University), and I've taken enough AP exams (junior year) to give me 24 hours worth of credit at TCU. 24 is what they state on their website as being the beginning amount to be a sophomore. At the end of these year, i should have about 34 hours of credit from AP exams. Would that mean, from your experience, that I would start as a sophomore? </p>
<p>I asked a college student at a TCU thing last week, and they said yes. However, a rep from TCU I emailed gave a very brief and yet vague response, alluding to the fact that I wouldn't be a sophomore, I would just be a freshman with a lot of college credit. How does this make sense?</p>
<p>Surely students at some colleges have been able to start college as sophomores becase they already had enough credit to do that?</p>
<p>Where do I stand?</p>
<p>you are a freshmen with enough credits to be a sophmore</p>
<p>^What bongo said. As a first year student at TCU, you will be considered a freshman. You will have 24 credits and you may want to pursue graduating early. Names for years in college are just that: names. You may have enough credits to be a "sophomore," but you're not. TCU likely has some sort of first-year program in place for freshmen that you will be a part of.</p>
<p>it still makes you a freshman, although you have the credits to be a sophomore. i'm not sure how they do their scheduling, but at my college they did it based on how many credits you had.. which will give you a huge advantage in scheduling over the other freshman students. assuming you take a normal amount of credits your freshman year, you'll probably have junior status by the beginning of your sophmore year, and you can probably graduate at the end of your junior year if you really want too.</p>
<p>You can be a freshman with lots of credits -or a sophomore. I entered school with a years worth of credits and am graduating at the end of my third year. It can be socially disruptive to be a sophomore who, at least for the first year, lives with freshmen since you're not in the same classes and somehow you're just in different places psychologically (coming in as a sophomore requires really buckling down and working seriously, no time for the acclimation that is usually possible during freshman year.) Also, with lots of credits you are probably in upper level classes with harder work and older students. It can be a challenge but from my point of view, totally worth it. When my friends from high school are graduating college, I will be finishing my masters-plus saved lots of money!</p>