“It was very challenging,” Greenewald said. He took 16 credit hours in the fall, 8 in between quarters during an inter-session period, 22 in the winter, and 28 in the spring.
“It basically means you have to cut everything out and just focus on school,” he said.
Greenewald was home-schooled by his mother and father. His father, an engineer, was taught Greenewald math and science. At 14, he took calculus and studied electrical engineering at a college level.
Greenewald took several Advanced Placement classes in high school including calculus, English composition, U.S. history, chemistry and physics. With Greenewald’s highest possible scores on AP tests, he qualified for 55 college credit hours.
Although Greenewald probably could have attended Ivy League universities, Wright State was the only university Greenewald applied to. It was close to his home near Xenia, and the electrical engineering program was exactly what he was looking for.
“Most other colleges have limits to how many credit hours you can test out of. In addition, I knew some of the professors. I didn’t want to go off to some other college and have them block my credits.”
Now, Greenewald is interning at the Air Force Research Laboratory on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He worked at the AFRL last summer before he was even an undergraduate, and completed assignments at a master’s level.
This summer at Wright State, he will begin work on his master’s degree in electrical engineering. He hopes to receive his degree in about half the time it would normally take.
“The time remains to be determined. It depends on how fast I complete my thesis,” he said. “Hopefully in a year.”
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