<p>What colleges have loose attendance policy?</p>
<p>State schools. Big schools.</p>
<p>It can vary a lot by teacher and class within a school. My son was dropped from a class for being late too often because the teacher counted 10 seconds late as absent and after x absences he dropped students. Was class he had an A in too. My daughter, in a large State U, has labs where missing 3 is an automatic F. She has classes where attendance is mandatory and others where half the students don't show half the time.</p>
<p>A better question is which fields rely on activities that require in class attendance. Engineering and science overwhelmingly requires you to be there, on time and ready to do stuff. Don't worry though, even if you are in the sciences, you will have classes that don't require attendance like most of your breadth courses. I took statistics and showed up three times, because we had three exams. I also made an arrangement with the TA so that I could come before section to hand in my homework and leave before section began.</p>
<p>if you are asking this question, you might as well not go to college, if you do the math, the cost of a college class (each one) is pretty expensive so if you are thinking of skipping class, then you might as well not get a college education......</p>
<p>I skipped nearly as many college classes that I attended so I know whereof I speak.</p>
<p>My experience is evidence that one can graduate from a major university with a spotty attendance record, but the toll it takes on one's grade point average is unacceptable when it comes time to admittance to post-undergraduate programs.</p>
<p>While I was able to get into law school, I had seven years' full-time responsible work experience and a near perfect LSAT score to go with my bottom-third GPA and I still had to settle for a less than spectacular law school.</p>
<p>I had a marvelous time in undergraduate school: I had the choice of lectures, plays, concerts, political meetings of all philosophical stripes, or art films almost every night, dorm bull sessions and late night television every night, and weekends wasted with partying.</p>
<p>It was, in many ways, the best times of my life. But I wish I'd had slightly less fun and drug my rear out of bed more often in time to make it to 11:00 AM class.</p>
<p>College was cheap when I was young. It certainly isn't now.</p>
<p>My advice: Don't waste your time and money if you don't want to actually attend college while you are going to college.</p>
<p>If you are not actually going to go to college when you are going to college, consider getting a job instead.</p>
<p>Do you mean attendance as in "go to class regularly" (in which case several people have already given you good advice) or attendance as in "I want to do a semester abroad and transfer in a bunch of credits and maybe take some courses at a college near my house over the summer but not necessarily take all of the requirements at that school"? If the latter, then you should check the website, but most colleges require that the final year of courses be "in residence" and your major may have additional attendance requirements. If the former...take a break from school until you are more concerned with what happens in the classroom than with how little you can get away with. Seriously. You won't be happy. Your parents won't be happy. Your professors won't be happy.</p>
<p>Senior'sdad, you just described my college experience just substitute grad school for law school.</p>
<p>Try ONLINE universities.</p>
<p>I agree with people above but I do think this is a good topic because I know some people who get very sick very easily when it is cold out and can’t make it to class sometimes.</p>