Colleges face student lawsuits seeking refunds after coronavirus closures

Re:Colleges face student lawsuits seeking refunds after coro... by gumby on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:32PM (#23355152)

I learned (when MIT shut down my former dorm) that they track the six year graduation rate (doubt anyone is attending all of the six years). That seems more sensible.

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Re:Colleges face student lawsuits seeking refunds after coro... by WalterBright on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:44PM (#23357385)

When I was in college, there was one (only 1) student who took 6 years to graduate. Students passing by him would often mumble "7 years of college, down the drain!"

(I won't spoil the joke, google it!)

As I recall, only a small handful took 5 years. This drifting along failing to graduate seems to be a modern phenomenon.

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Re:Colleges face student lawsuits seeking refunds after coro... by gumby on Friday May 29, 2020 @10:30PM (#23357938)

I was class of 1986, graduated 1988 (though TBF I had a full time job in another part of the country for my last two years so taking classes was...complicated).

This is undergrads, I know of a grad student who took 13 years (and three theses he refused to submit) until they handed him a PhD and showed him the door. Obviously in his case he didn't lack brains, just had a longstanding psychological issue.

Even for those who get doctorates, outside a small number of fields (e.g. CS) there's a long, soul-killing gantlet of post docs and RAs before either a position is obtained or you give up.

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