4-year Safety schools with advanced standing

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<p>As the title implies, does anyone know of any safety schools, preferably in the north-east, and particularly in NY and NJ that offer an undergraduate the opportunity to graduate with at least a bachelor’s degree within perhaps 3 or 3.5 years if the sufficient number of AP credits are obtained? </p>

<p>I understand that the definition of a safety school is not absolute, and would therefore vary by person. However, I am up for the recommendations from people of all academic standards. </p>

<p>I ask this mainly as a precaution if I should be accepted only to my safeties. If I am accepted to my safeties, I intend to attend graduate school once I earn my degree from the safety school, but it would be in my interests if this degree were earned as quickly and efficiently as possible, since it is unlikely I will be impressed with staying in the school itself. All this could change if I turn out to love the school, but I want to be prepared for the event in which I am not. If I am, on the other hand, accepted to my dream school or my target school, I would not mind taking my time in the school, as those schools were more diligently chosen. </p>

<p>I apologize for any conceit on my part. </p>

<p>Equuleus</p>

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<p>Well, you have not specified your academic stats or financial constraints which determine what is a safety for you.</p>

<p>But many state universities such as Rutgers and SUNY schools do give credit units and subject credit for sufficiently high scores on specific AP tests. If your AP tests give you a semester or quarter worth of credit units, and either give you credit for that amount of courses you would otherwise have to take or you are willing to forego that number of credit units of free electives, then you can graduate a semester or quarter early (same if you had enough credit units and subject credit for two or more semesters or quarters).</p>

<p>You major will also determine how much subject credit you may get from AP credit. Also, if you are planning on medical school, ask about AP credit on the pre-med forum, since many medical schools do not like AP credit used on pre-med course requirements or have special (but not all the same) rules.</p>