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I certainly don't want to minimize his accomplishment, but note that he entered UVa with 72 credits from A.P. exams passed in high school. Therefore, he only needed 60 additional credits to graduate, the equivalent of four regular semesters.
I certainly don't want to minimize his accomplishment, but note that he entered UVa with 72 credits from A.P. exams passed in high school. Therefore, he only needed 60 additional credits to graduate, the equivalent of four regular semesters.
To minimize what you said -- duh. The fact that he had 72 credits coming out of high school means he worked just as hard there. It would be logistically impossible to find 120 credits worth of classes (esp. 120 credits that don't have schduling conflicts) that would fulfill a major and finish them in that time.
To minimize what you said -- duh. The fact that he had 72 credits coming out of high school means he worked just as hard there. It would be logistically impossible to find 120 credits worth of classes (esp. 120 credits that don't have schduling conflicts) that would fulfill a major and finish them in that time.
Doesn't make him any "smarter" than anyone else, though.
Doesn't make him any "smarter" than anyone else, though.
with all due respect, yes it does. A typical semester load for a full time college student is 13-18 credits. He took 23 one semester, and 37 the next. I am willing to bet the typical person simply could not handle that kind of workload, no matter how much time was spent working. He also took 5 AP tests in addition to his normal course load for this senior year of high school. I took 5 AP classes (15 credits) total in high school, and that was hard enough...
I am currently a senior in college, and to do what he did, you would have to be extremely smart.
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