Agreed.
My own observation is that class availability tend to be more of a problem at large State School and not so much in the private places that charge $80k a year.
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even so, some of those public university students have taken out loans to remain there an extra year or two, and the costs can add up.
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Correct. I have a friend who told his son to go to SDSU over UCSD thinking it would save $6000 ($8k vs $14k) a year. Kid ended up taking 6 years to graduate and negate any savings over going somewhere more expensive. Definitely something to consider when looking at colleges.
I’ve seen lots and lots of data, probably for years since I joined this website, showing both four and six year grad rates.
Not everyone goes to college full time. People go part time, take gap years or gap semesters, and so forth. I took six years to graduate. I went to CC and transferred. I worked all through college. That is a good way for many people to earn a degree.
Perhaps the data you’ve seen also reflects a trend of people taking longer to complete college. At any rate, I see nothing of real concern. Certainly I don’t think there is any reason to think that providing the six year grad rate “normalizes” something in a negative way.
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That doesn’t sound like a workable system. When is a drop “too late”? The drop deadline at UC Berkeley, for example, is the 4th Wednesday after classes start. The add period extends to the Friday after that, so it’s technically not too late for someone to add. (Realistically, though it wouldn’t be a great idea unless a student was attending all along).
And if you shorten the drop period, you end up with adverse consequences. If it was only two weeks, students might not even have gotten a single graded assignment back before the drop period expired.