She said she's still considered a freshman, which suggests that she doesn't have 30 hours (or 24 or whatever the standard for that school is.)

But then, shouldn't they be done in only three years? If you have a year less to pay for, isn't that the same as getting a one-year free ride?

concurrent enrollment
 

K. I've only taken 15 hrs., so I'm still a freshman. I understand that I have to enroll in at least 12 hrs to be considered a full-time student, and at this point my unweighted H.S. GPA is 4.0 and my college GPA is 4.0, also. I still plan to attend college for 4 years (I've waited my whole life for this, why would I want to cut it short?), taking concurrent classes was not my way of finishing on the "fast-track". I've done community service, held student government positions, and been active in school organizations. My question was more about how the chapters may view my college credit. Is having completed these college classes going to cause me grief during recruitment?

Shouldn't, no. It should reflect well on you more than anything.

Thanks. I'm sure that I'm not the only PNM that will have college credits on their transcript. I wouldn't have thought anything about it, but an alumna suggested that I not tell any of the chapters. My recruitment forms specifically ask for college information and I felt like it would be dishonest not to include it. The chapters would find out anyway when they checked my grades with the university, and that would be way worse than being upfront. Anyway, her suggestion made it seem like it was a really bad thing.

Unless there's something I'm not thinking of that wasn't addressed upthread, I don't know why it would be a bad thing.

Pandora, as concurrent enrollment is pretty common in Oklahoma, I can't see this working against you. Surely this is something which comes up all the time.

You don't have to be below the federal poverty line to need financial aid.