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6 Steps To Graduate College Early
It doesn’t take much to find horror stories about how a student has a six figure debt from their degree in basket weaving. Now I’m not a financial expert but I’d like to think I’ve gotten pretty good with money throughout the last couple years both in regards to making it but more importantly saving it! So here’s a list of how to graduate college early and avoid the ever ballooning student debt crisis!
1. Maximize Number Of Credits
This is the end all be all step towards graduating early. Make sure you know what exactly you’re getting yourself into first though…By maxing out your credit load you’re completing a lot more course work than most people who sometimes only do the bare minimum to be a full time student. Take for example you’re completing 18 credits (Which was my maximum load without further permission) and your friends are taking 12 credits, which was the bare minimum for full time students. If you keep this up for 3 semesters…You’ve just completed an entire semester more than your friends…When they take 5 years to graduate you can now graduate within 3.5! This is the ultimate way to graduate early! Cut back on the alcohol and partying a little bit and get more courses completed. Again you have to be careful, if you know you can’t handle the workload this is not for you! I struggled and I had a very minor part time job…Literally…