One of the downsides of taking less time to graduate is requiring earlier decisions. Many students don't graduate with their major unchanged from what they thou

One of the downsides of taking less time to graduate is requiring earlier decisions. Many students don't graduate with their major unchanged from what they thought it at the time they matriculated. Personally, by the time my freshman year was over, I had taken only three courses total in what would become my two majors (math and computer science), and one didn't count (C.S. for non-majors). I had no idea what I wanted to major in when I went to college. I needed that time to decide. Of course, moving one year of college into summers would make for the same amount of work each semester, but temporally compressed, at the cost of removing all your intra-college summers. No summer internships, no summer jobs. That means you can't go work for google; you can't work for Fog Creek. You can get an internship during school, but that won't be full-time; just a day or two a week. For many students, they'll be away from their families for most of those three years, which would consist of nearly-constant work.