Dumb question

My sister and I went to the same University. She used her AP credits to graduate in 3 years but between when she attended and when I attended the university limited the number of AP credits you could apply. So I actually had more APs than her but could only use them for placements.

Anonymous wrote:Our oldest will be graduating this year at 21 with a four-year degree because they started kindergarten at barely five years old. I'm glad we thought ahead and didn't redshirt. Nobody stops to think about the ramifications of having a 20-year-old high school senior but that day is quickly approaching for many parents who started their kids at six or seven.

Not the bad math poster again. 20 yr old senior?

It’s the college troll again, the one who obsesses over the time it takes to graduate from college.

Our oldest will be graduating this year at 21 with a four-year degree because they started kindergarten at barely five years old. I'm glad we thought ahead and didn't redshirt. Nobody stops to think about the ramifications of having a 20-year-old high school senior but that day is quickly approaching for many parents who started their kids at six or seven.

It doesn’t even matter if it’s four years or six because OP asked if redshirted students take “at least 3.5 years.” Which, in addition to them thinking redshirting is rare, is weird. The vast majority of college students take at least 3.5 years to graduate, regardless of the age at which they started K.

I can’t figure out if OP is trying to correlate students who load up on APs to get college credit and graduate early and students who have been redshirted? The whole question is weird.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people take 4 years to graduate from college.

That’s not accurate, it’s not most people. Fewer than half of American students graduate in four years. 60% of college students have finished their degree by the sixth year.

Your figure includes community college students. We are talking four year programs

The two have nothing to do with each other. Do you know what redshirtting means?

I would add that redshirting is not rare.

I forgot to post that a large amount of posters come here for information on how to find aid for school and other useful information. So again income here is all over the board. Unless you believe that the .01% of biglaw partners all post here discussing their salaries and all their kids are “athletes” with a 1590 SAT.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people take 4 years to graduate from college.

That’s not accurate, it’s not most people. Fewer than half of American students graduate in four years. 60% of college students have finished their degree by the sixth year.

Nearly everyone who posts on DCUM is UMC, and the vast majority of UMC students DO graduate in four years(or less).

Do you have a study that broke down students according to income? Even if you think everyone here is umc your statement is still inaccurate.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people take 4 years to graduate from college.

That’s not accurate, it’s not most people. Fewer than half of American students graduate in four years. 60% of college students have finished their degree by the sixth year.

Nearly everyone who posts on DCUM is UMC, and the vast majority of UMC students DO graduate in four years(or less).

Anonymous wrote:Most people take 4 years to graduate from college.

That’s not accurate, it’s not most people. Fewer than half of American students graduate in four years. 60% of college students have finished their degree by the sixth year.

Anonymous wrote:I understand redshirting is so rare that anyone reading this post probably knows, at most, one person who was redshirted.

If you do know someone who was redshirted, did they take at-least 3.5 years to graduate from college?

Redshirting Kindergarten is about 1/3 of our private school. Young but made the cutoff kids often get lapped by redshirted kids who turn the next year older before many of the younger ones do.

How long one takes to graduate college has more to do with the cultire of the college, the size/class availability, and the allowance of AP credits to count toward graduation. It does not relate directly to redshirting.

Half the kids in our private were red-shirted going into kindergarten. Best thing that could have happened to DD. And of course they al took four years to graduate college. Why would the college care that they had been red-shirted in kindergarten????