In the beginning we see that she just graduated college and her 21st birthday is like, the very next day. Correct me if I'm wrong but most college graduated are usually 22 or are about to turn 22. So why is Mia JUST turning 21?
Of course she could've started college early, but she honestly didn't seem THAT smart in the first one.
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I was thinking the same thing when I watched it last night. She may have been one of those people who sail through college in 3 years. Especially since she found out she was a princess and would be taking over when she turned 21, they would want her to be finished with school, so she really had to buckle down. At my university, there's not just a fall and spring semester. You can take summer classes, winter intercession, and summer intercession classes. So she must have taken college classes for 3 years straight after high school.
The same with Lily. They are the same age and Lily is in grad school.
They could have done dual enrollment.
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Or it could be that her birthday is at the end of the school year, like in summer time, and so she was just 18 when she left school, 19 at the end of the first year of college, 20 in the 2nd year and 21 at the end of the third year when her birthday could come just after graduation?
I dont no about america but in the uk, university only lasts 3 years and most people go 21 in their last year, so technically, if your birthday is in like august then you could graduate before you turn 21.
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She probably finished her degree early by taking summer classes. I know this one girl graduated from college within 2 1/2 years.
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If she spent so much time at college that could be the reason why everyone is saying she's barely spent time their in the past 5 years.
shareshe could have just started college when she was 17. i started when i was 17.
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Why couldn't she have gotten her GED and then started college at 17? Considering she was going to inherit at 21, she would have had to hurry with her college classes. And if she as taking classes in the summer too, that would have accelerated her toward her degree.
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Hear hear. I'm an August baby, so went to university when I'd just turned 18 and graduated at 20 (and turned 21 the next month). Maybe university in the States is longer, or something?
shareIt's generally 4 years in the US with many people going for 5. But then we have stupid crap like "core" classes that have less than nothing to do with your area of study.
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She was 16 in the first movie, right? You can start college at 16, whether that means getting your GED and enrolling full-time early on, or doing a "running-start" program, where you start college classes while still in high school. They probably wanted to expedite her schooling so she could take over when she needed to.
shareThe high school my best friend attended, during junior year, students could begin taking classes that counted towards both their high school diploma/degree and towards college credits. You could take up to four classes per semester that counted towards both. So, in theory, my friend and her classmates could easily have taken care for up to 16 credits before they ever darkened the door of the college/university they graduated from. And, at her school, there was an option to take two college course per summer, which meant between sophmore and junior year you could get two and then two more between your junior year and senior. Which would give you 20 credits the day you walked into college/university. If the average standard is 120 hours and you did the 20-hours in high school, you would only have 100 left on day one. Two semesters per year, for four years, would only be 25 per semester and most schools limit it to be tween 19-21 hours a semester. If she took summer classes, she could have knocked out a good 4-8 per summer, plus some classes you take can be worth more than average (i.e. my university had a math class that was worth 4 credits instead of 3, there was a music class that counted as 4 instead of 3, and there was an acting class that counted for 3 instead of 2. If you took those three, you would have 11 instead of 8, plus some internships can count towards credit hours.). It is possible to get through college in 3 years, as well as being able to graduate before your 21st birthday. Especially if, like an earlier poster mentioned, your birthday was later in the year. Her birthday in the first movie appeared to be towards the end of the school year, so she might be May-Aug.
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