Started college as junior - what now?

kthanks
Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:52:14 +0000

Hello all!

I am trying to figure out if I should graduate two years early or 1.5 years early. I am currently a “freshman” at a pretty good (top 75) public university. I began my college education as a junior by credits due to AP courses in HS. I could easily graduate with a BA and a minor in Spanish by the end of next year. However, I wouldn’t have time to complete the honors program due to the sequential nature of the coursework in my major.

Also, I am trying to decide if I should add a business certificate to my degree that would potentially make me more employable after graduation. This would also tack on the extra semester and push my graduation forward to 1.5 years early.

Finally, I am really unsure of what I want to go into. My major was decided for me because I took lots of classes in it early on, and now I’m almost done with all the coursework for it. I am looking at a variety of fields that are all different from each other. So I probably should not go to graduate school directly after graduating anyways, but I am tempted to do so because it seems most efficient. Finances are also an issue - time and credits are money. The sooner I can get going with a career I like, the better.

So my question is,

Does it really matter if I did the honors program or got a business certificate? How can someone like me make the most of their time? Would it mean going above the necessary amount of credits to graduate, or would it mean graduating way early? I want to be as efficient as possible in getting to a career that I enjoy, though I am not really sure what that would consist of yet.