UA Scholar & AP credits

kjcphmom
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 14:53:05 +0000

If you are asking if she can take the money she would get the fourth and apply it to years 1-3, the answer is no. UA will “give” your daughter the 2/3 of whatever the tuition is for the years she attends (up to 4 years.) If she is going into engineering, she will get an extra $2500 per year on top of the 2/3 scholarship. There might be other scholarships she is eligible for, but I wouldn’t “count” on them. Many of them go to students who do not get other financial help from UA.

Many other schools are not as generous as UA in accepting AP credits, Clep etc., so if she can graduate in 3 years, she is still financially ahead of other schools which would require her to stay 4 years to get all her credits. This is a plus. Keep in mind, many students even at UA do need the 4 years, especially if they are in a curriculum which does not offer classes every semester or if they change majors. (PS, definitely look at CLEP. My son was able to get 14 credits by taking the CLEP test for spanish which handled two required classes for him.)