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Thank you for your post. I did not mean that you would sign up for 30 credits a semester and attempt to take tests to see what happens. You would really have
by vlad 18y ago
Thank you for your post. I did not mean that you would sign up for 30 credits a semester and attempt to take tests to see what happens. You would really have to show the professor you know the class really well and have a good reason for accelerating your education. Also, faculty are not administrators, they are former students. They enjoy helping bright motivated students, no matter how much money the student pays in tuition.
However, taking many more credits "with department chair permission" is always a real option. Steve Pavlina got a B.S. in Computer Science at a state school in California in 1 and 1/2 years. He simply valued which assignments were worth doing and attempted many more credits than other people did. He also made decisions in under one minute that would normally take his peers weeks to arrive at (such as what topic to write an essay about.)
And actually, he got the department's highest honor and maintained a good GPA by doing this.
- yummyfajitas 18y ago>Also, faculty are not administrators, they are former students. They enjoy helping bright motivated students, no matter how much money the student pays in tuition. That's my approach. But my experience (as both a student and teacher) suggests that I'm a minority, and people like this guy (http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/02/11/ferrall http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/02/11/ferrall) are more common. It varies from place to place, however. Anyway, I'm not saying you can't push through fast. I did it myself, and it was well worth it (2 years = half price). But I had to fight the system every semester, and use various paperwork/administrative hacks to do it. It wasn't easy, and if I were a chem major (department chair: Jones, mentioned earlier), it would have been impossible.