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?

This is one of the most useless, dumb posts on dcum this week. Tell us about yourself.

Anonymous wrote:I have no idea what the original question means!

Agree. OP makes no sense.

I have no idea what the original question means!

No doubt the OP of this ridiculous thread is the same poster who carries her grudge against red-shirted kids throughout this site.

Anonymous wrote:Most people take 4 years to graduate college, regardless of how old they were when they started kindergarten. What do you think is the connection?

My redshirted kid will take 5 years to finish college. The same reason we held her back -- her disabilities -- still impact her years later. It's not a race.

Actually most people take 5 years.

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.

The only way you could have a 20-year-old high school senior is by holding back a winter/spring kid twice or a summer/fall kid thrice. However, it’s only fall kids who are considered for redshirting. They start school a year late and they’re never held back again. So a redshirted student will start their senior year of high school at 17 and turn 18 shortly after. But at no point during the year will they turn 19, let alone 20.

Anonymous wrote:I'd be very wary of sending a kid to a university that didn't have at least an 85 percent 4 year graduation rate, regardless of whether a kid was red-shirted.

But I would assume the red-shirted students are overwhelmingly special needs, so a 5 or 6 year time year horizon may be more realistic for the red-shirt population.

Many students at elite universities are “special needs” these days, some are 40-50%. Yet the 4 yr graduation rates are high. So your assumption seems off trying to connect special needs to graduation rates.

What? It takes most people at least 4 years, so I'm not sure what you are on about?

I'd be very wary of sending a kid to a university that didn't have at least an 85 percent 4 year graduation rate, regardless of whether a kid was red-shirted.

But I would assume the red-shirted students are overwhelmingly special needs, so a 5 or 6 year time year horizon may be more realistic for the red-shirt population.

Based on all the college tours we've been attending, I think most kids graduate in 6 years - that's the stat admissions officers are sharing (98% of students graduate within 6 years).

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.