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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought the five-year plan was normal nowadays, especially for engineering.[/quote]

it is very much the norm. Most kids don't graduate in 4 years anymore.

My brother studied engineering and it took him 5 years as well.

There's nothing wrong with it.[/quote]

All these state school people need to stop weighing in. THey don't know what they are talking about. At Ivies people do NOT take more than four years to graduate during normal times. That is considered weird.[/quote]

PP never said he went to a STATE school. I actually cannot stomach your tone. You split the world into the IVIES and the STATE SCHOOLERS. This sounds like a badly written netflix series. The unwashed legions exist to service your family and their ilk.

DCUM is open to all posters, even the undeserving people who did not go to Ivy League schools. (Do you REALLY think prospective employers STUDY CV's and make sure that the months add up to the semester? You sound woefully uninformed .)[/quote]

I don't think anyone is being cruel to state schoolers, it's just a fact that there's a much lower entry into state schools, which all offer years of remedial courses to lower performing students, who can begin several rungs below college readiness. Of course it's not uncommon for students of that caliber to take more than 4 years for a bachelor's. And nobody really cares because so many other peers are taking five or six years.

But to get into an Ivy these days, overachievers need a near perfect SAT score, nearly all A's, most have upwards of a year of college already completed with AP Exam scores. Among these higher caliber students, in a private college where most students spend all four years together in on campus housing (read social pressure), nearly everyone finishes in 4, if not early.[/quote]

Not to mention that four years at a state college costs about as much as one year at an Ivy. An extra $20,000 vs. an extra $80,000 makes a bit of a difference. [/quote]

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