Why are my expereiences contradicting the statistics even when they apply to wealthy people?

[cobrat]

There are many students in this country who don’t how the financial resources to go to a four year residential college full time. So wht if they take 5 or 6 years to get their degrees? It may be that they needed to work to earn the money to pay the next term bills. Or maybe they are at a school like Northeastern wher almost everyone does the co-op program…and yes…it takes five years to graduate. Or maybe they are at Oberlin double majoring in music at the conservatory and English in the college…which also takes five years.

Some other possibilities for taking longer to complete college include taking time off to pursue professional art/music projects or political activism full-time or getting called up for deployment by one’s national guard/military reserve unit*.

• This happened to some friends/college classmates of younger friends for OIF/Afghanistan because they happen to enlist as a national guard/military reserve soldier and their units were called up for deployment.