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[quote=Anonymous]I work at a college and I would say both types of students are part of driving up the average.

The mature part time or full time students who also has work and family responsibilities and can't carry as heavy of a courseload is one.

There are also many young students though who fail a course / year or switch majors or for a plethora of reasons take an extra year to finish. That is also pretty common. Sometimes it is because they partied too much or just didn't take their first year seriously at all, other times it is a health / stress issue, sometimes they worked really hard but failed a course that was required to start the next year etc..

The young students fall into two general categories - The ones in extended adolescence - these are the kids who don't work, don't have any other responsibilities, have no financial obligations, don't have a lot of life skills (cooking, even laundry!) and basically are learning to be independent and responsible for the first time at college while still fully supported by parents. The other group are the ones (same age as the others)who have moved into early adulthood and come to college already having some independent life skills and have had responsibilities. They have had jobs, pay some / all of their own bills, can function on their own. These are the ones I hire for summer jobs![/quote]

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