Re:37 credits? (Score 1)

Though I can't speak for any school but my own, one important lesson I learned is that the right advisor can totally alter your academic career. My junior year there was a freshman who sat near me in my systems software class. Since you can't cover all the pre-reqs of this class with AP credit, I wondered how someone could be in the class his first semester. Turns out he convinced his advisor he was a wiz programmer so his advisor just signed off on those classes. It's really too bad too because while the guy may have been great at programming (or might have just been lying, who knows) coding hobby apps on the side probably doesn't teach you everything you would learn in real OOD, Data Structures, and Software Engineering courses. Another example is a friend of mine who convinced his advisor that the econ courses he took relied on math enough that he should be able to count them toward a minor in math. Doing this, he was able to get a math minor without taking any additional math classes (beyond what he needed for his engineering major). If his school is anything like mine then advisors have free reign to do as they please so it's quite possible he was able to get his advisor to let him sign up beyond the usual credit load (which is 23 hours max at my school, over 19 with special permission).