If High school requires 24 credits to graduate is there any reason to take extra classes and end up getting 30

Question

summer classes

Answer 1

Sure there is! Here are my top 3 reasons: earn college credits, scholarships, and maybe even take a trip abroad.

When I was in high school, I took as many classes as possible (ie. no study halls) so I could study in Italy for a year through Rotary International and still graduate on time. If your high school works with this program, I would recommend you seriously consider going! It looks great on resumes and scholarship applications, and it's THE cheapest way to live in another country for a year. You only pay for your plane ticket and $450 insurance, but you get $50-$100 every month as "allowance" so most of that is essentially paid back. At my (public) college, just spending a month abroad will cost you $3,600.

The advisors told me that all I needed to graduate after coming back was one English class, which I could take at a local community college. Unfortunately, the school switched principals, and she didn't agree with this idea, so I had to stay for my senior year to finish one stupid English class. It was a good thing, however, because I ended up taking almost all Advanced Placement classes...which you can get college credit for, and are not as hard as you might think.

I live in Connecticut, and at the 4-year state universities they charge $974 for each class, so taking the A.P. test for $80 or a CLEP (credit by examination) for $75 will save you a ton of money! I earned 12 college credits through the CLEP (never bothered with the A.P. test because it's harder to earn credit), saving almost $4,000 and a whole semester's worth of time and energy! And even if you only score the minimum that your college requires to get credit for that subject, it doesn't affect your GPA in any way.

I definitely didn't have a perfect GPA (B average) like some of the other people in my class with straight A's, but taking advanced courses REALLY looks good on the school's scholarship application. I ended up getting $2,600 total, and almost everybody getting scholarships were in those A.P. classes. To me, a little extra homework was totally worth the free money!

Answer 2

If any of the extra credits are counted as college level courses, you would have credits for college whenever you enroll. This may help you graduate college sooner. If you did not do well in these courses, however, you may not want to claim them, and then you can start over in college with a clean slate, and possibly graduate with a higher GPA.

Answer 3

you are able to take evening courses, weekend courses, online and summer season college. in case you're fairly desperate to graduate discover out what courses you nevertheless choose and take those. you are able to no longer finished a grade yet you are able to finished a million-2 training in summer season. And in case you already take song instructions outdoors college, verify what point it incredibly is via the fact those can pass in direction of your extreme college credit count selection besides.

Answer 4

It would look good if you plan to go to college. Otherwise, there's really no point unless you just want to learn the subject.

Answer 5

If you are planning on going to college, this will show
that you are a hard worker. That's good.

Answer 6

colleges will look at and see you as an overachiever which = possible scholarships

Answer 7

it might look better on a college application.. im not sure..

Answer 8

lol i need 220