<p>GreenTea,</p>
<p>I was actually planning to do the same thing for the same reasons. Since I am transferring in the max amount of units and taking 2 courses over the summer, I only need to take 16 courses to graduate. </p>
<p>However, after giving it more thought and receiving lots of advice from current transfers, I decided I am just going to shoot for graduating a couple of quarters early. The main reason I reconsidered my grand plan is because of class availability issues (as Sopheee mentioned above). I really don’t want to settle for courses just to finish early. I would rather try to take courses that I’m really interested in with a professor that I really want. </p>
<p>Although graduating in one year would be awesome and cost-efficient, I think the higher quality of classes would make up for the extra quarter(s). </p>
<p>One more thing – although a large course load is manageable, I would rather not spread my energy and efforts so thin that I am turning in half-ass work. If you have aspirations for grad school, I would recommend you consider this as well.</p>