Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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Oh!
remembers what she'd been going to ask in the first place
How long does one generally stay at University? I mean, what age is a person, generally, when they finish? And what about if they've fucked things up a bit, might they take longer to get a degree? Be allowed to retake a year, that kind of thing?
Fay, it takes folks between 4-7 years to get a bachelor's degree, on average, starting when they are 17-18 years old. I powered through in 4 years and graduated at 21 years old. So, if someone took an extra couple semesters to finish, I would put them at 23?-ish? Maybe?
Hmm. Bless you. So if they went to Europe, first for a year, say, then they might conceivably be 25 or 26 in their last year? Maybe?
Especially if they were kind of ditzy, and couldn't settle on a major?
That would be on the later side, but there are all sorts of things that causes folks to be graduating in their mid 20s. Folks have to work and take classes part time for some of it, or take semesters off...
I don't know if this person is wealthy, but generally financial aid seems to run out after 8 full-time semesters. That is why a lot of people can't use financial aid for summer sessions
Hmm. How about if you held off going to University for a couple of years? Would that work?
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OR, if you'd gone to Uni straight from high school, would you be able to be a member of a law firm by the time you were 26?
If someone went to community college for a couple years, then transferred into a 4 year institution, I think they'd still be eligible for financial aid at that point -the system tends to favor, though not exclusively "traditional" timing of graduate high school-go to college.
But I think that community college attendence, a year abroad, and then a 4 year institution could well conspire to have a regular middle class or low-income family person (ie, requiring financial aid) graduating at 25.
Yep. If you go the straight route, you could do undergrad 17 or 18 to 21-22, law school another three years. So minimum probably 24, 25 more common.
AHA! Law school! Well, that changes everything. And I point to What Brenda Said.
How about if you held off going to University for a couple of years?
Some folks do, whether to spend time traveling or because they need to work for a while. Some people go into work that doesn't require a college degree, and then later decide they need a degree for a career change. Some people have children while they're teenagers, and have to balance child care and studies. Some folks don't have the high school grades needed to go to a four year university, or they don't have the funding, so they take a class or two a semester at a community college, and then transfer later on. This would extend the time it takes to get their college degree. When I was teaching at Durham Tech (a local community college) I had folks in their 30s taking evening classes and planning to transfer to a four year university. So I think your age options are pretty open.