Not really. I just got a letter from UW that says they accepted all my classes from Beloit, for 4 credits apiece, and all the credits from my high school AP classes.
I currently have 60 credits.
1/2 of a degree.
And I’m technically only a sophomore.
This rules.
So I’m considering the possibilities here. I could enter UW as a junior and get a degree in English in three years. Or I could enter as a sophomore and do something cool like double-major in English and anthro and minor in art or something.
What else can I do with 60 transfer credits and 2-3 years?
As a sophomore, facing the housing lottery of the next year and determined not to get a roommate, I cashed in AP credits and became a junior. The housing lottery came and went, I got a good number ahead of every other sophomore, got a single apartment in a nice area, registered for classes (ahead of all of the other sophomores again), then switched myself back to a sophomore.
I repeated the trick to become a senior for a one-week period to ensure I got into the classes I wanted the next year, too.
Congratulations! Feels good, doesn’t it? In the middle of my sophomore year, I found that I’d amassed enough credits to qualify as a junior. Immediately, I started planning on graduating at the end of the following year, simply because I was planning to enter the one-year graduate degree option that my school had.
However, if I didn’t have any immediate plans, and I was in your shoes, I’d attempt to tack on a double major. I’m looking at one year of school now, and I’m trying to fit in things like art history classes–with one more relaxing undergrad year, I could have done more of what I wanted to. As it stands, I’m happy now, but if you’re really interested in anthro, why not use that extra year? The world isn’t going anywhere.
I was never classified as a freshman at the UW–I came in with 27 credits (mostly from AP tests). Funny, I’m taking five years to graduate, anyway. It’s not so much the bulk number of credits, but getting all the requirements fulfilled.
