To make a long story short, I thought I needed an extra license for FCP for an academic project that I was to start last December. The project got delayed for over 6 months. I have an unopened, shrinkwrapped FCP 3 academic. As the Academic Upgrade price is very close to the Full License price, I thought I might do better financially selling the FCP 3 version and applying that money towards a fully licensed FCP 4 academic. I've been searching on the Apple site and I do believe you can apply a normal upgrade to an academic license. (If anyone discovers otherwise, please let me know). If your interested, please e-mail me off-list with an offer including shipping and a suggestion of how you'd pay (no, I don't have a paypal account). Thanks, -- Erica