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[quote=Anonymous]OP, do you think your parents concerns about your academic load have any merit? What kind of student are you now? When you took the one AP they let you take each year, did you do well in all of your classes or did you struggle?

Do you know what you want to study in college, and what you hope to do when you graduate? If you don't have a direction in mind, going through more quickly is just going to get you nowhere more quickly. If you're still figuring out what you want to study, then your parents have a point with not being so focused on accumulating credits initially. If you do have a direction, have you looked into taking CLEP exams to get credit for courses. https://modernstates.org/ is a good place to start, and you can look at what you think you might be able to do, find out if your intended college accepts examination for credit, and then propose a simple plan to your parents. Not the in-a-hurry ones you've been pushing, but perhaps a suggestion that you believe that in addition to the 15 credits they're supporting you take the first semester of your freshman year, you also think you could self-study for one CLEP exam. Show them that's successful, and then perhaps they'll see you're capable. Keep in mind that you may not want to plan for taking courses over the summer because that's prime time for internships, and depending on what you're hoping to do when you graduate, you're going to want to take advantage of internship opportunities.

I don't think you're going to be successful at convincing your parents to support you in this until you understand what their concerns are. You haven't expressed their concerns, except to say they won't let you. Why won't they let you? Does your current academic performance support their concerns, or your optimism?[/quote]

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