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[quote=Anonymous]Is this new, though? To some extent, this has always been true and that the big factors are:

*money

*the standards of the particular college

I graduated from an Ivy in the early 90s and at least one of my roommates and I had more than enough APs to get Advanced Standing. I know that the state flagship would have given me credit for over 10 classes. However, when it came down to the particulars at my enrolled college, they would only count one per subject area (for example, I had 2 each in 3 different languages and, while they obviously respected them for placement purposes, for graduating early credit they only took 3 of the 6 APs (or maybe even fewer since these 6 were in foreign languages). I think I also had 2 History and 2 English, and so on. The point is, it wasn't just about the numbers. My roommate did qualify but used her Advanced Standing to get into Upper Class courses that were not technically open to first-years, but had no intention of graduating early (the finances were not a big deal to her). And another close friend, took a year off, what would have been his junior year, did some incredible projects and travel on the cheap, and graduated with his class.

In sum, in my experience, students with large numbers of APs have often not graduated early.

But I am curious if you are seeing an increase in this trend? [/quote]

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