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In the past 10 years*, I have had many students enter college with junior status because of all the AP and dual-enrollment credits they bring with them. In most cases, this status is illusory and for all intents and purposes they are simply freshmen (with boatloads of credits) and stay at the university for 4 years to get a proper education and foundation for med school, law school, or grad school. Many law or med schools will not consider applicants who are only 2 years out of high school unless the applicant is extraordinary in some way.
*This seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon . . . prior to 1995 or so most students came in with a few AP credits at most. Now there seems to be a compulsion to come in with as many credits as possible. As an educator, I'm not crazy about this. AP and dual-enrollment courses rarely match the content and rigor what my university offers and do not serve the maturing process that students gain in 4 years at a college/university. (Just my opinion . . .)
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