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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a working class first-gen student at HSYP. My college years were heaven for me. I squeezed every possible benefit from that HSYP experience. No way would I have left early and short-changed myself. When it was time to leave it was really bittersweet. We had developed such strong friendships and had shared so many challenging and joyful times together during those short four years. I can't imagine any of us wanting it to end a minute sooner than necessary.

At schools like HSYP they used APs for placement purposes back in the day. If you got a 5 on AP Calculus you could enroll in the harder Calc for engineers math class. Otherwise, you had to take a math test during orientation week, and everyone who didn't score high enough went into the regular calc class. But nobody skipped taking the first calculus class in the math series. There's no way that those high school AP or community college Dual Enrollment classes are at all equivalent to taking something like chemistry with HSYP students who are being graded on a curve.

If HSYP is going to give you a diploma with their name on it, they want to be sure your course work was completed under their standards and conditions. I agree with that approach. [/quote]

Not sure about HYPS but Columbia & Cornell definitely have students graduating early every year.

HYPS gives full financial aid to needy students, so the financial issue isn’t there.[/quote]

There's no full pay middle class at HYPS?[/quote]

DP there are, and they’re struggling to pay unlike that PP who can’t fathom why someone would “leave early” [/quote]

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