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[quote=Anonymous]I graduated from a flagship with an Economics degree.  The college courses were appropriately more difficult than my high school classes.   I enjoyed the variety of the distribution requirements.  I had several professors that took an interest in me and I took my first upper division elective in the 2nd semester of my freshman year.

This was before AP was so popularized.  So I didn't have economics in high school.  I'd say the only class that really overlapped were parts of the Bio 101/102 sequence.

The health class I took was "Drugs, Self, and Society".  It didn't bother me to spend half a credit on that...and with all the excessive partying going on around me, I actually found it kind of relevant.  And the half credit class I took was jazz dance and it was a nice break from regular school.  Those were on top of a regular courseload...so free in a way.

I thought the point of the APs was that they substitute directly for gen eds if you do well enough.  So what's the real complaint about duplicating high school?  There's a huge variety of classes you can take that are not available at the high school level.

My kid is at a flagship now.  His class choices are really interesting. They make me want to go back to college.  He has been able to use his 15 AP/IB credits to give himself more freedom.

Usually you can take more than the minimum credits to graduate with a major.  There should be room.

I understand the distribution requirements could be a cost issue.  But I think they were effective from a learning enrichment standpoint.[/quote]

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