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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents joked with me, asking why I didn’t do this.

I reminded them that I would have been 20 graduating college and it didn’t seem worth it to stress myself squeezing in all those classes for that.

As it was, I had barely turned 21 when I walked in my ceremony. I only took a couple academic classes my senior year and mostly stuff for fun - sign language, dance, several music classes, etc. The fun electives completed my credit requirements.[/quote]

What's wrong with being 20 or 21 when you graduate? Both of my kids were 20 at graduation. One took a year off and then went to law school, and one went straight into med school. [/quote]

Good for your kids. I wanted to at least be old enough to buy myself a drink before graduating college. I had no reason to rush into adulthood any sooner than I needed to. I wasn’t going straight to grad school (I got a masters in my mid-20s going to classes at night while working full time). I enjoyed my 4 years in undergrad and didn’t have a reason to make it go faster. It would have involved overloading credits, which would have made the social part of college very difficult. I actually had a pt on campus job my last 2 years and that wouldn’t have been possible if I were taking all the credits needed to graduate early.[/quote]

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