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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Money was a serious issue for us. We found that if kid can accumulate enough credits through AP exams & community college classes taken while in high school, it makes graduating from college in 3 years possible. This saved a year’s worth of tuition & kid was a full-time finance worker at age 21.[/quote]
3 years can typically put you at a big disadvantage applying for jobs, and you sometimes have to cram the academic experience with grueling overloaded classes. Can be great at some places, but I've seen the rush to graduate burn out friends and significantly handicap them later.[/quote]

Employers don’t know when you start college.  Just when degree was awarded. And  even that falls off your LinkedIn pretty quickly.  Nobody knows or cares about 3 years vs 4 vs 5[/quote]
You get less time for experience, less classes overall, and you're cramming the bare minimum requirements most of the time. [/quote]

Nonsense. Because of AP classes I was able to double major in technical majors and still graduate in 5 semesters + 2 summer classes at the community college.

I got the same job as my classmates who took 4 or 5 years, but saved $100k.

If I had stayed another year, I would have spent thousands on fluff classes.[/quote]

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