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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD is finishing up her junior year.  She is a STEM student.  We have been saving our whole lives to pay for her college and currently have 210K planning on 60 or 70K a year.  Figured we could save most of the 4th year tuition by the time she gets there.

That said I recently discovered that it is common for many STEM students to take 6 years to graduate college.

How did I miss that?

Did you all know that 6 years to graduate college is a thing? [/quote]

The stats include people taking breaks from college.  For example, DC is a co-op student right know with his university.  He is at a work site for 8 months.  It will push his gradautation at least one semester.  Two if he decides to do another long stint.  It also counts those students who change their majors and need another semester or two to graduate in the new major.  It also includes those students who come from HS not like the DCUM area wher they do not come in with many basic credits and need another semester or two to get through all the requirements.  It slo includes those students (and several of our DCs’ friends are like this), who take a year off between years.  Either to regroup and figure out a different major, or work to get more money to pay for college, or to travel on the cheap before retuning to college.

Plus, a large segment does get their degrees in 4 years.  [/quote]

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