<p>i hear at CSu schools...usually it take 5-6 yrs for students to graduate...whats the longest you've had a friend or someone you know spend in school to graduate?</p>
<p>well it took a friend 7 years to get his Phd
His wife says he was recovering from the 70's ;)</p>
<p>I began college in the fall of 1968 and received by BA in the Spring of 1978 - 10 1/2 years! But of course, it was the sixties, man!</p>
<p>My cousin is going into his 6th year at Pitt :(</p>
<p>Wasn't there some guy who took something like 12 years to graduate college, and now he's getting a TV deal or something similar? I vaguely remember hearing about it a little while ago...</p>
<p>33.....went, dropped out, almost got a degree at Villanova moved none of the credits transferred to USF, and got a BA in English at 51 years old</p>
<p>yeah the reson i asked, because i think i'll be stuck in school for alittle longer...transferring to a new school this spring...for the past couple yrs have been taking only 2-3 classes a semester..i chose to take less classes, so i'll do better..which worked...but i'll end up being in school longer than i expected</p>
<p>there's a guy at one of the UW-??? schools who has been there for ages, and he had like 250 credits. It was in the paper because they decided he shouldn't be getting instate tuition for that long (aka taxpayers paying for him to not get a job).</p>
<p>My boyfriend has taken 7.5 years to graduate (transfer, double-major). It was a poor decision; this is a major red flag when applying to humanities grad programs. The average graduation time was 5 years at our state school.</p>
<p>Don't be worried about taking an extra semester, though. Many students do that.</p>
<p>At UCLA, there's a 7th-year student who's double-majoring in Psychology/Political Science mentioned in the October 20th issue of the Daily Bruin... :rolleyes:
<a href="http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?ID=34561%5B/url%5D">http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?ID=34561</a></p>
<p>yeah at the CSU i go to the avg yrs it takes to graduate is 6 yrs..also since there have been budget cuts in CA, its also harder to get the classes u want especially for your major...i'm not sure how long it'll take, but i just started on my major and should be done with the prereq classes after this semester...so hopefully it wont take more than a couple yrs to graduate</p>
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<p>Yup, the movie Van Wilder was based on him.</p>
<p>The guy at the UW school was attending UW-Whitewater. He finally graduated last spring, mostly because the school told him to graduate or else and he had pretty much run out of classes he could take.</p>
<p>a music major that plays the tuba took 8 years for undergrad</p>
<p>friend of the family's fiancee- 8 and a half years when (if) he graduates (from undergrad) next winter. thats IF he gets a slightly heavier workload. when they got engaged they decided to wait until he would actually graduate so he could get a real job and all, that was 3 years ago. haha.</p>
<p>Remember the line from Julie Brown's musical number ('cause I'm a blonde!') in the movie "Earth Girls are Easy"?; 'I'm a sophmore in my 4th year at UCLA.' Hilarious!!!</p>
<p>One kid from my high school spent 7 years in high school. I was 7 feet tall and enormous.</p>
<p>in UC's do they have a requirement u have to graduate in a certain number of yrs?</p>
<p>i think he's also in about $50,000 of education debt. has four or five degrees? idiot...</p>
<p>the girls apparently like him though</p>
<p>My Honors Geoscience teacher took 10 years to get her bachleors in Geology at the U of Kansas. (1992-2002)</p>