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When I was a senior applying to colleges, I did not apply to the big state schools in Oregon because the information I got from them said it was impossible to guarantee graduation in four years due to difficulty getting into classes. Uh, no thanks!
Where I ended up going, getting into classes wasn't a problem - the worst thing anyone encountered was getting into a section at an inconvenient time. Nevertheless, a lot of folks took five years for what I think are perfectly valid reasons:
-co-op their junior year (we had a lot of engineers)
-double degrees in disparate field (systems engineering and English, for example)
-they were part-time students
Of course, I do know folks who just took forever ... one guy took six or seven years, and one of the impediments to his graduation was this math class he had to take about four times. He kept flunking not because of a lack of brains but because he never, and I mean never, went to class. I can see why universities might want to discourage this, but in general if students are taking five years, it is because of a perfectly valid reason. And if that reason is that the university is screwed up, they shouldn't make the students suffer!
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