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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many 5th and 6th year students are walking around Georgetown and Penn any given semester? Can't be more than a couple hundred.[/quote]

How would anyone even know? Could be a grad student. Could be a student who took a gap year before entering college. Could be a student who took a covid semester.[/quote]

Unless you're in all remote classes—which is not even possible at selective universities—how do you plan to be incognito? Younger classmates will see you on campus, will see you in class, you will be in their study and project groups—you may even have to live with some. You can't lie to yourself or to others. You are there to finish up your bachelor's.[/quote]

I think the PP was talking about recognizing someone from "walking around."  But regardless you don't have to lie -- this is just so not a big deal.  You're in classes with people of different ages, it's not like college classes are sequenced like HS, you likely have friends who were in years prior to you.  I went to a selective small school with a high graduation rate and I remember there were a dozen people or so whose schedules were out of step with their graduating class--it was nice to have them around longer and get to know them better. [/quote]

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