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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are his disabilities such that it would be hard for him to take a full college class load? [/quote]

OP here. Missed this question. No idea. He's taking 3 AP classes this year, and is managing well, but as I mentioned, does not have much in the way of extra-curriculars, so that he can focus on school. How does that compare to a college load? Obviously this is my eldest, and I did not go to college in this country :-) [/quote]

A normal college load for a humanities major at most schools is 5 subjects. Four subjects is usually full-time but would not put you on path to graduate in four years unless the student has AP credit, does some summer work and/ or takes a few January intersession courses. The state schools and the not-super-elite privates are usually pretty good about giving AP credit. You can google each college and something like "AP course policy" to see how many credits he is likely to get.

If he is living at home and you are paying out of pocket, he can probably just take 3 classes first semester and see how that goes. For most colleges, about 1/3 of the required coursework over the four years for humanities majors are general education courses. Another 1/3 or so to be courses in the major. First semester, he is likely to take an intro class in his field of interest (history), a Freshman English class and one other class which I would recommend be math or a foreign language since the longer one waits to take those, the more likely one forgets what they learned in high school.

Students who live on campus or are receiving financial aid usually have to be 'full-time' which would mean four classes.
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