Completing college in 3 semesters.

[kingabubakr]

guys, i was wondering, i read steves blog about this topic and i was fascinated and said to myself " hey , i gotta try this!!"

any of you guys know how to pull this off,


all that i know, is that only the States offer this kind of education where you can do this stuff.

correct me??

and also, if any one does reply, please could you say which university do this?

one more thing,

does that means this applies to masters!!?? or even PhD?????

appreciate it, whoever responds.

[Restrikted]

I go to Penn State University, and the rule is that one is only allowed to take 19 credits per semester, but you can request more credits if you feel you are able to handle it. I suppose there isn't really a limit, a bunch of people will take 21 and 24 credits their last semester so they won't have to stay another semester.

[Steve Pavlina]

I did it at Cal State University Northridge (CSUN). The normal limit was 19 units per semester, but all you had to do to take more classes was to get a permission form signed by your dept chair. The first semester I could only convince her to approve me for 25 units max (and even then she was hesitant), so I took a couple extra classes off campus. When I showed her my report card from the first semester, it wasn't hard to get her to approve me for up to 40 units for the last two semesters.

The other challenge is that I could only enroll in up to 19 units via the automated system each semester, so I had to manually add the extra classes by getting permission from each individual teacher during the first week of classes. That was sometimes difficult, and I had to scramble to find alternate classes when my top choices were already full.

These hurdles were manageable though. It was really just a question of being determined enough to make it happen. I broke a few prerequisite rules to get all the classes I needed, but nobody bothered to enforce them.

The best thing is that it didn't cost me any extra tuition to take those extra units, so I got a substantial discount on my college education.

I graduated a month before the Northridge earthquake, so that was nice timing.

[verbors]

I haven't been to universities yet so I am a bit confused about the rule of attending classes.

Don't you have to drop classes if you don't attend them regularly or something ?

[Brutha]

all that i know, is that only the States offer this kind of education where you can do this stuff.

You can also do it elsewhere (for example in Germany). There is a certain amount of courses that you have to pass and when you do all the work you get your degree.
University isn't about being 3 years in university but about getting a certain amount of knowledge and proving that you have it in exams.