What do you mean by “expected”? Did they put you on probation or something if you only took 3 credits?
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Ours were actually by class and THEN by first letter of your last name. So grad students, then seniors/fifth years, juniors, sophomores, freshmen. IIRC, there were credit hour thresholds for each ‘class’- like 30 for becoming a sophomore, 60 to be a junior, 90 to be a senior, etc…
So if you were a senior and your letter was in the first group, you had your choice of classes. If you were a freshman in the last group, you were making do.
In large part though, the seniors and freshmen didn’t have it as bad as the sophomores and juniors- that’s where it was tough to get what you were looking for.
And… I have this weird recollection that students who were in the honors program got to register first before others in their class.
What pulykamell said. My birthday is in late September: I went straight from high school through four years of college, and graduated “on time” at age 21. I was 20 years old for the first 3-4 weeks of senior year.
Pretty much the same for me. The cutoff date in New York was Jan 1 and my birthday is in November, so I graduated at 21 with no acceleration.
I could have graduated at 20 if I took the 3 years of junior high in 3 program, but my mother, foreseeing that there would be a war on and that is I graduated at 20 I would get my ass drafted, shot that idea down.
I skipped the first year out of high school, went to see relatives in Belgium. Worked all through University. Had mono twice and changed major once.
- Basically one extra year because I did a year of part-time community college after my underwhelming freshman year at university before re-enrolling in a different four-year school.
For the record, I’m NOT an advocate of community college as a stepping stone to university. Lots of people said it was the smart move and my parents were big fans of the plan, but it was definitely the wrong path for me. CC classes were easier than high school and didn’t prepare me for university workload, and I felt pretty socially stunted because I didn’t attend the various 100-level classes at the school where it seems a lot of folks meet.
My partner at the time followed a similar path and had a similar viewpoint. She actually finished an associate’s then went to university for a bachelor’s and felt like it was really hard to get “involved” with the school coming in as a junior.
Finished classes at 22 in the fall, but graduation was after my birthday in the spring, so I technically didn’t graduate until I was 23.
48, 24 years after a 2-year Associate in Engineering degree.
No, not at all. That was just the standard definition for “full time.” You could take one fewer class or one more class and still be “full time,” but four classes/credits was the standard courseload and that vast majority of students at least started out the quarter with that many classes. I mean, if you want to take your time getting through college while paying the university full tuition, go ahead and take three classes per quarter. I’m sure they don’t mind.
Like some others here, I graduated HS at 17, went to college right away and graduated at 21.
I’m not exactly using that degree. I realized I was in the wrong major (art education) halfway through my senior year, but that’s a little late to change your major when your parents are paying for it, so I stuck it out, taught elementary at a school for a year, taught art one year (which conformed my suspicion), went back to teaching elementary for some years, got an elementary certificate, tried that for a few more years, got a useless master’s (the feds lied when they said it was a high-need field) and gave up on teaching for now.
I figure someday I’ll try to get the last few Master’s level classes I need to get the endorsement I want and try teaching that.
Sometimes I wish I had just gone into a trade.