<p>I would like to know whether it is possible to start an undergraduate degree at a university/college in the USA if you already hold an undergraduate degree, let's say at the age of 22.... What if someone wants more undergraduate degrees? It seems to me that probably it IS possible to do this. However, I never hear about people doing this and I couldn't find info about admission in this case on university websites. Is it very uncommon?</p>
<p>Thank you for you help:)</p>
<p>Yes, you can do it, but don’t expect to get financial aid to help pay for it.</p>
<p>Thank you for your response. Do you know, if need-based schools, such as the Ivies, give out financial aid to these students or they don’t either?
Now it seems to me that people don’t normally do this…after all, it would be quite ridiculous to be walking around as a fresham when you’re older than a senior…</p>
<p>I have never heard of anyone going to an Ivy for a second bachelors. I doubt that Ivies would accept such students.</p>
<p>What’s your reason for wanting a second bachelors? If you’d like to go to grad or professional school in a field that you didn’t major in in college, you could simply take the required courses by enrolling as a special student at whatever college is local.</p>
<p>I did this – taking at a local state university the courses required for me to enter a doctoral program in psychology. My undergrad degree was in government. I only needed to take about 6 courses – psychology, and statistics – to meet the prerequisites for applying to doctoral programs in psychology.</p>
<p>do a google search for “second bachelors degree”. It is possible, but the schools that offer it require it to be in a completely different area than your 1st degree. For example, someone with a History degree that now wants an Engineering degree. These programs are small, and, given the crush of students in the echo-boom generation now going to college, probably hard to find.</p>
<p>Schools with a hard time making enrollment would likely just require you to take 1 year, or 32 hours of credit, before granting you a second degree. However, you won’t get financial aid for it. Those schools good with financial aid, like the Ivy-league schools, either do not accept second-degree students or would require you to effectively retake it and earn a “lesser degree,” like the “Bachelor of Liberal Arts” from “Harvard Extension School,” NOT “Havard University.”</p>
<p>I know, off-hand, the UChicago and UNC-CH do not grant second degrees, and I believe Columbia and Rice do, but through the school of Continuing Education and at ~$4,000/course.</p>
<p>I think this is mainly to prevent students from attending a so-so school and then attempting to build their resume by then attending a school they had no chance of getting in as freshman, in order to build their resumes. Others are like Harvard Summer School, it doesn’t meet diddly-squat, but they’re happy to take your donation–I mean “tuition.”</p>