Anonymous wrote:Alot of the top tier private colleges/universities are limiting the number of credits you can transfer from DE/AP. Assume it's a combination of not thinking they are the equivalent of their entry level courses + they don't want to lose the tuition money. They do allow "placing out" of classes with some that they do not grant grad credit for. I'm annoyed as my DC is graduating HS with alot of AP/college credits and cannot use them. I will encourage DC to graduate a semester early with credits he can use (capped at 4 courses), however, only to save tuition costs.

Anonymous wrote:Seeing/hearing from neighbors, acquaintances & relatives that their 2024 kids are graduating next month instead. WHY? You’re only young once! It’s crazy to me. There’s no way this is a money thing. It’s so sad. And these kids probably stifled their professional prospects due to not having time to do multiple internships. Why such a rush to grow up?

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Anonymous wrote:To take some gap years.

B.S. It's to both save money and start life. It's called opportunity cost. Google it. It's silly to piss away a year of life "taking courses". The magical part of undergrad is that first year and second. After that, mature students are eager to move on. Finish as quickly as you can and either jump into a career or head to medical or law school, so you can quickly finish that and make some real money.

The ones I know doing this have extraordinary credentials and want to attend grad school

Umm... yeah... that means they are starting grad school a year earlier and will finish grad school a year earlier...thus, starting their professional life a year earlier. And will in theory likely marry and have a child a year sooner. Old farts needs to stop romanticizing being pot smoking loafers in a college town for a year at age 21-22, like that in any way helps you. The world moves FAST now, so surprise overachieving kids are reacting.

Is that you brunch granny?

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Anonymous wrote:To take some gap years.

B.S. It's to both save money and start life. It's called opportunity cost. Google it. It's silly to piss away a year of life "taking courses". The magical part of undergrad is that first year and second. After that, mature students are eager to move on. Finish as quickly as you can and either jump into a career or head to medical or law school, so you can quickly finish that and make some real money.

The ones I know doing this have extraordinary credentials and want to attend grad school

Umm... yeah... that means they are starting grad school a year earlier and will finish grad school a year earlier...thus, starting their professional life a year earlier. And will in theory likely marry and have a child a year sooner. Old farts needs to stop romanticizing being pot smoking loafers in a college town for a year at age 21-22, like that in any way helps you. The world moves FAST now, so surprise overachieving kids are reacting.

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Anonymous wrote:To take some gap years.

B.S. It's to both save money and start life. It's called opportunity cost. Google it. It's silly to piss away a year of life "taking courses". The magical part of undergrad is that first year and second. After that, mature students are eager to move on. Finish as quickly as you can and either jump into a career or head to medical or law school, so you can quickly finish that and make some real money.

The ones I know doing this have extraordinary credentials and want to attend grad school

Umm... yeah... that means they are starting grad school a year earlier and will finish grad school a year earlier...thus, starting their professional life a year earlier. And will in theory likely marry and have a child a year sooner. Old farts needs to stop romanticizing being pot smoking loafers in a college town for a year at age 21-22, like that in any way helps you. The world moves FAST now, so surprise overachieving kids are reacting.

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Anonymous wrote:School just isn’t fun anymore. It’s not about exploration or making friends. From one year before they start tracking math in your neighborhood, it’s about executive function and taking all the right classes. And it never ends. You might as well stop spending money and start making money, because you’re not having fun anyway.

+1

There isn’t a lot of room for creative exploration in school any more, either at the college or HS level. It is all about the grade grind. That makes it boring and if you are going to grind you might as well get money for it.

Are the kids happier once they start working?

Yes. Working 9-5 with no homework is 100% better

I thought 8-5 work was awful compared to college.

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Anonymous wrote:To take some gap years.

B.S. It's to both save money and start life. It's called opportunity cost. Google it. It's silly to piss away a year of life "taking courses". The magical part of undergrad is that first year and second. After that, mature students are eager to move on. Finish as quickly as you can and either jump into a career or head to medical or law school, so you can quickly finish that and make some real money.

The ones I know doing this have extraordinary credentials and want to attend grad school

Umm... yeah... that means they are starting grad school a year earlier and will finish grad school a year earlier...thus, starting their professional life a year earlier. And will in theory likely marry and have a child a year sooner. Old farts needs to stop romanticizing being pot smoking loafers in a college town for a year at age 21-22, like that in any way helps you. The world moves FAST now, so surprise overachieving kids are reacting.

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Anonymous wrote:To take some gap years.

B.S. It's to both save money and start life. It's called opportunity cost. Google it. It's silly to piss away a year of life "taking courses". The magical part of undergrad is that first year and second. After that, mature students are eager to move on. Finish as quickly as you can and either jump into a career or head to medical or law school, so you can quickly finish that and make some real money.

The ones I know doing this have extraordinary credentials and want to attend grad school

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Anonymous wrote:myob? Maybe they have a good job already lined up? Maybe they want to leave the college years behind and start working?

My super smart DC would rather work than go to school, but they know they need a college degree. They can graduate early with all the AP credits, but they will probably do a +1 masters, so they will probably graduate with a masters and maybe double major in 4 years.

Has she ever been in the working world??

College are the best years and I can't imagine wanting to wish through them. There not anything better waiting on the other side!

I say this as someone who's been pretty happy with my career even.

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Anonymous wrote:School just isn’t fun anymore. It’s not about exploration or making friends. From one year before they start tracking math in your neighborhood, it’s about executive function and taking all the right classes. And it never ends. You might as well stop spending money and start making money, because you’re not having fun anyway.

+1

There isn’t a lot of room for creative exploration in school any more, either at the college or HS level. It is all about the grade grind. That makes it boring and if you are going to grind you might as well get money for it.

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Anonymous wrote:School just isn’t fun anymore. It’s not about exploration or making friends. From one year before they start tracking math in your neighborhood, it’s about executive function and taking all the right classes. And it never ends. You might as well stop spending money and start making money, because you’re not having fun anyway.

This. If your only goal.is to make good grades and get the highest paying job possible, why not finish as fast as possible? College is essentially trade school to these types..

To “types” that aren’t rich, yeah

+1 seriously

Even though we are UMC, we don't come from money. We earned every penny and actually help family members. Finding yourself in college is a luxury we don't really have.

People who say that college is a "trade school" to us type of people are elitist aholes in their little privileged bubbles who know nothing about how the real world works.

Actually I am the pp and am a first generation college graduate from a woking class family. I knew this was my last four years of not working full time and decided to take as much advantage of it as possible; I also worked part time the whole time I was in college and did internships.

It's better to have some fun while you are young enough to enjoy it. Those kids keeping their nose to grindstone to just change it for another grindstone after 3 years are going to regret it 20 years from now. I saw how hard my parents had to work, and knew I would have to work even harder as first generation in college.

I can understand middle.class and working class kids who are under pressure to save money, but really don't understand UMC kids who don't have to worry so much.

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Anonymous wrote:School just isn’t fun anymore. It’s not about exploration or making friends. From one year before they start tracking math in your neighborhood, it’s about executive function and taking all the right classes. And it never ends. You might as well stop spending money and start making money, because you’re not having fun anyway.

This. If your only goal.is to make good grades and get the highest paying job possible, why not finish as fast as possible? College is essentially trade school to these types..

To “types” that aren’t rich, yeah

+1 seriously

Even though we are UMC, we don't come from money. We earned every penny and actually help family members. Finding yourself in college is a luxury we don't really have.

People who say that college is a "trade school" to us type of people are elitist aholes in their little privileged bubbles who know nothing about how the real world works.