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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]74% of American undergraduates are over 25 years old.

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Claiming that a 20 year old would feel out of place shows ignorance of the actual college landscape.[/quote]

You do realize that "American undergraduates" include people going to school in the evenings while working during the day. If you just look at students going to college full-time and living in dorms, [b]you'd see that an undergraduate over 21 is pretty rare,[/b] as is a freshman over 18.[/quote]

If a kid's birthday is in February, and they start Kindergarten at age 5, they turn 6 in February of Kindergarten.   They turn 18 in February of their senior year of high school.   They turn 22 in their senior year of college.    Not at all "pretty rare."   Assuming a typical 4 year college experience, they only people that will NOT be 22 when they graduate will be those with birthdays in May-August.[/quote]

+2 was first PP ever even in college? You turn 22 your senior year, generally, unless you have a summer birthday then you’re 21 all year. Never mind kids who took a gap year between HS and college, kids who changed majors and need 5 years to graduate, or kids who took time off during college and also need extra time to finish their degrees.

There’s one VERY insistent poster on all the redshirt threads who has admitted they live in NYC where they still do school cutoffs by birth year, not academic year like the entire rest of the country including DC/MD/VA, where this site is based and where most posters come from, and refuses to understand that the majority of kids turn 6 in K and 18 as a HS senior. You can point it out over and over and they’ll never acknowledge it. [/quote]

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