<p>I received an early admission from Stanford. </p>
<p>But due to the financial situation of my family (unfortunately not eligible for financial aid), I really really need to graduate in 2 years. </p>
<p>AP credits, summer sessions, course overload, “easy majors” and whatever methods you have done or have witnessed. </p>
<p>Your advice will be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Please teach me how I can possibly finish my study in 2 years.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s possible.</p>
<p>Max number of units that can be transferred is 45 and you need 180 to graduate.</p>
<p>So you have 135 left.</p>
<p>Assuming you took the max allowable number of units for fall/winter/spring quarter, you get 60 units in a year. Two years so 120 units.</p>
<p>15 units left.</p>
<p>To get these out of the way you’d have to take classes during the summer. I don’t know what the financial aid situation is for summer session, though.</p>
<p>Really, I would recommend taking whatever loans you need to in order to at least be on campus for 3 years. With 3 years on campus, it will be possible to major in whatever you want (with still some pretty serious course overloading, depending on major). I wouldn’t advise just majoring in something random to finish early–you have to live with that degree for the rest of your life and it will have a lot of influence on what opportunities you have available to you afterwards. Since it sounds like more school probably won’t be on your list of things to do after graduation, you are probably going to be concerned with getting a job. I guarantee that finding a job as a religious studies (or anything similar) will be WAY more challenging than it would be for say, anyone in the engineering school. </p>
<p>So before running into Stanford and doing whatever you can to get a degree quickly–do consider what you plan on doing with the degree first.</p>
<p>above poster is correct:
even if you could fit in the credits (which you can’t), your academic advisor would not allow it.
you must at least be there for 3 years. Just take the loans. It’s worth it.</p>
<p>have you explained your financial situation to the Financial Aid Office? They are often flexible in helping out.</p>
<p>well, i know someone who graduated Stanford in i think2.5 years? he’s a famous celebrity in korea though :P</p>