How common is it to enter college with sophomore status?
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Anonymous
| DS and many of his friends are going to be sophomores when they start college. |
Anonymous
*humblebrag* |
Anonymous
And I bet IBM is already wining and dining him, lol! |
Anonymous
| Well aren’t you special. Can’t afford four years of college? Bummer. |
Anonymous
| My DS had enough credits to graduate in three years but was not considered a sophomore or “second year” at Uva. What schools actually slot you in as a sophomore? |
Anonymous
| Not uncommon these days. My kid started with 62/63 credits due to AP/IB and whatnot. |
Anonymous
| Ivies let you use AP credits to place out of prerequisites but you can’t use them to as credits toward graduation. |
Anonymous
My dd entered with enough credits to be a sophomore. It helped with class registration because it opens based on status. She was in the Honors College at her "Flagship"  and found that most of the students in the honors program had that many credits. It was an even split from that group on kids that graduated college in 3 years and those that chose to take on a 2nd major and finish in 4 years.
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Anonymous
| From areas that offer lots of APs...fairly common. |
Anonymous
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How's being first year sophomore different from eventually graduating as a junior?
I'm not from the US but my DC will in all likelihood got to college in the US, so would be interesting to understand how these things work. And, just to confirm, this issue arises as High School Students get college credit by taking classes labeled college level, and also if they go to camp at a college during summer? |
Anonymous
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Schools have gotten smarter you may waive courses and have sophomore standing but still need to take a certain number of credits in residence.
Also a lot of the AP courses in the math and sciences don’t really prepare kids for the next level courses at top college. Skip Calc 1 and enroll in Calc 2 at your peril. |
Anonymous
+1 My kids attend Chantilly HS in Fairfax. So, so many of those kids graduate with oodles of college "credit." |
Anonymous
| DS will start as sophomore because of one year in CC. |
Anonymous
| AP credit is different from sophomore standing. |
Anonymous
New poster: not if the college accepts the AP credits. |