Georgia State Mathematician Completes Degree in One Year

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From the Saporta Report:

By André Walker Ivanna Poliashenko (B.S. ’26) remembers the exact night her plan came together. She pulled up the mathematics degree requirements at Georgia State University and realized her high school Advanced Placement scores already covered a sizable chunk of her core classes. By early morning, she plotted a path to finish a four-year math degree in 14 months. “I got excited and spent half the night […]The post Georgia State Mathematician Completes Degree in One Year appeared first on SaportaReport.

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sunrisepirate@piefed.social · 3 pts · 22d (1 reply)

Whoever wrote this article isn't very good at math because 14 months is definitely longer than 1 year.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 22d

And since it's the result of quite a few AP classes it's actually just that she's been taking college classes for at least two years already

Good for her and all but I was expecting something actually interesting like she realized she could test out of the courses from her own studies.