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Originally Posted by Akhenaton06
I think that a lot of the graduation rates are for students that graduate in four years. SC's students have quite a bit of credits to attain to qualify for graduation, which helps to explain that low figure.
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Interesting. I wonder if I contributed to the statistic by opting to graduate a year early? Many kids these days have the option to take a ton of AP or IB classes that will count as college credit. My small high school only offered about 15 hours or so of would be college credit, and I had the highschool credits to graduate after 3 years. I opted to graduate early and went straight to college. I earned 35 hours my freshman year, instead of 15 hours if I had stayed for my senior year.
I'm sure tons of kids may take similar paths with the block scheduling that is so common now. Even with the requirement of 24 highschool credits, kids can take up to 8 per year, and the advanced kids get to take highschool English and Math in 8th grade.
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