Could I possibly finish in 2 years?

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Firstly, congrats to you on what you have already done!  To have basically completed your first year of college while in high school and having a game plan for finishing college quickly is fantastic.

Ultimately, OP, it really is up to you how doable it would be for you to complete your degree in 2 years.  You have chosen, it seems, a fairly challenging degree program (CS).  Briefly reviewing the UMN CS degree plan, it also seems that there are a lot of course sequences/prerequisites.  Part of the answer will depend on how frequently courses are offered and how well you do in them (don't have to retake/make sufficiently high grade to move to the next course).  Part of it will depend on your ability to successfully juggle multiple CS and math classes at one time.  Only you can really know that.

The strength of this board is really in helping people find non-traditional college credits and non-traditional ways to complete their degrees.  Rachel had asked about where you want your degree to come from.  If you definitely want a UMN-Twin Cities degree, we probably are going to be of little use to you.  If you are willing to/interested in considering other universities, people here could help with locating courses and degree programs.  This could potentially help you finish your degree more quickly and at a lower cost to you (a lot of that, of course, depends on your financial situation and whether you have Pell grant, scholarships, etc.)

I did a quick search for the alternate credits that UMN-Twin Cities accepts and it seems, unfortunately, to be limited.  It appears they accept 3 CLEP courses for credit--College Math and the two Economics courses.  If you aren't familiar, CLEP is sort of like an AP exam, but you don't have to be a high school student/take a high school class to take the exam.  The math likely wouldn't do anything for you, but the Economics courses might at least fill general elective credits (or possible something like a social sciences requirement, if you haven't met that).  If you search for "Modern States Educational Alliance", they have training materials for the different CLEP exams and will pay the fee for you to take the tests.  It would likely be easier/faster and certainly cheaper to do these CLEP tests than to pay tuition for 6 hours of "filler" classes.

https://admissions.tc.umn.edu/college-le...ram-awards

Hi - Thanks so much for your response! 

First off yes - there are lots of prerequisites many of which I have done. Also I should note I already took economics this year so I guess that leaves me with minimal reason to do any clep exams.

Also, I am definitely okay with studying a lot in order to finish sooner.


I am curious- what would these other colleges I could go to to finish even faster because I was planning on just finishing all the way through at Minnesota?

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What credits do you have? Are you wanting a Comp Sci degree? Do you know where you want your degree to be from?

Hi - thanks for your reply!

So here is what I have:

I have AP credits from AP statistics and US history which gave me some core requirements. (7 credits)

Then this year first semester I took:
Calc 1 - 4 credits
Economics class (core requirement but MN calls them lib-eds) - 4 credits
University writing (university wide requirement) - 4 credits

Second semester:
Calc 2 - 4 credits
Intro CS class - 4 credits
Supplements class (very easy course for core requirement) - 3 credits
Media class (same thing) - 3 credits

Then this summer I am planning on taking physics and the next statistics class which would put me at 40 credits and I need 120 to graduate.

I was planning on finishing at the UMN but I am open to hearing if there are other alternatives that would be faster and legitimately land me a job?

Thanks for your help!