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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought 5 years was close to becoming the norm.

Are the graduation rates published in USN&WR and similar college ranking sites still  based on 4 years?[/quote]

Not at top privates. Many kids are finishing early in 3 or 3.5 years. And a lot of privates also live together on campus every year, so it really sucks if you have to return and live off campus to finish.

Do the Ivies even offer enough online courses to finish your degree remote if you don’t want to move back? Imagine being a year away from a degree at Cornell, Brown or Dartmouth and you have to go rent an apt in those pretty obscure towns when you’re older than everyone.[/quote]

Decade-old Ivy perspective: My ivy did not offer enough or even
any remote classes if you didn’t want to move back. I was one of 4-5 in my year to not finish, plus a couple of kids who transferred sophomore year or left for start-ups. One kid didn’t finish his senior essay, so he could submit that remotely and didn’t have to return. Another girl had done a semester abroad at a time when our school did not allow many transfer credits from other schools, so she had already planned on another fall term. And I came back because I was short credits. I would sit with study abroad girl in our assigned dining hall. I suppose we could have rented apartments but there weren’t many and it would have been a hard to apply our financial aid packages to them. Off-campus living was expensive and usually taken up by grad students long before we had known we’d need it.

I think it is very different post-Covid at my school. Many athletes and international students had to take time off so there is less of an obvious divide between classes and no more stigma about lingering on campus. [/quote]

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