The Florida statutes state that students who do not complete their degree within a certain amount of credits will have to pay a surcharge. These surcharges are as high as 100% of our tuition! For someone that completes their AA degree first, like myself, this means that the extra credits that don't apply to your degree directly are counted to your excess hours. As an example, I personally face 30 hours of excess credit surcharges in the coming year because those credits in particular were not counted towards my electrical engineering degree at the University of Central Florida. Normally this would cost about $6,150, but with this law it would cost about $12,300. You can see that for college students who are working to put themselves through college this can be very difficult. I personally work 40 hours a week to put my self through school full time as well. Help us make a change to this law because it is not only affecting me, but also individuals that change majors and pursue minors.