<p>This is a poll:</p>
<p>Please cite anticipated attendance years as well as State or Private</p>
<p>Me: 4 years exactly, State</p>
<p>S1, will graduate in May in 4 years, no summers, private, with an engineering degree, no less</p>
<p>S1 will grad. in May, 4 years, State</p>
<p>Bless you all and may all your hopes come true.
Life sometimes intervenes…</p>
<p>S2, if all goes according to plan will graduate this May - 4 years; private</p>
<p>Son has had senior standing for a while (AP credits) and mentioned earlier this semester that he could graduate in 3 years as a math major at public flagship U- but that would be without the Senior Honors Thesis next year so he better take 4 years (also, he would have to hustle with the GRE and grad school plans now, plus be less prepared/competitive if he finished next spring- and he’s barely 19, no need to rush). He can enjoy the full 4 years of undergrad life on a great campus.</p>
<p>My son is a junior. Not sure if he will pull it off in four years. I think there may be an extra semester coming down the pike. He came in with 4 AP credits and did a 3 credit summer course – but has had some 12 credit semesters. </p>
<p>There’s actually a grad program at his school, full of courses available to juniors and seniors, with lots of courses offered in the fall, that would be a nice mesh with his interests and not at all a waste of an extra semester.</p>
<p>My daughter also had a few APs. She is going to graduate in 4 years, probably with 2 majors and 2 minors. I don’t know how she’s going to do it. I would have been happy with 2 majors.</p>
<p>Son is finishing music education degree, 4.5 years, public school, New Jersey.</p>
<p>Son on track to graduate this June, LAC, 4 years.</p>
<p>Son graduates in May, 4 years. Engineering. Private. </p>
<p>He was a Katrina kid, so transferred. Did 1 summer course, to make the whole pre-req/get done in time taking the courses he wanted thing work.</p>
<p>Son graduating in May-4 years, Private, BS in Microbiology and Immunology.</p>
<p>S is a HS senior, and as we head toward decision time, one of my concerns is a 4 year graduation rate. My assumption is that on-time graduation is easier from a private LAC than a public, as it’s easier to get into classes, GC’s help more, etc. </p>
<p>Do you think that’s correct? With his 529 shrinking and tuition costs rising, a potential extra year is a big consideration.</p>
<p>I don’t agree that it’s easier.</p>
<p>son will graduate in 4 yrs, computer science, private. But that is not the end-graduate school.</p>
<p>Daughter is planning to graduate this spring–4 years, private, engineering–but I almost hesitate to post because I’m afraid I’ll jinx her.</p>
<p>Midway through second semester of my son’s senior year in college, he unexpectedly became ill and had to take a medical withdrawal. He finally graduated after summer session of the following year. Bottom line: We expected 4 years until second semester of senior year, but it ended up taking 5 1/2 years.</p>
<p>Life happens.</p>
<p>Is your S doing better?</p>
<p>DS is graduating next month (December) from an Ivy, after 3 1/2 years (plus one winter session course, plus 6 hours done in a summer program)…he heads to law school in August, '09 (don’t yet know where; he’s in the midst of the application process now), just one degree…he’ll be home from Jan-August (until he decides to leave, anyway)…he’ll work those six months, but he has the option of work that he can travel with, so he’ll likely do some traveling (including back to his college to see his GF, about whom he is quite serious)…</p>
<p>The 3 1/2 years of college went by faster than his first 18 years! I’m having some trouble getting my arms around the fact that in just over a month I’ll be the mother of a college graduate!</p>
<p>To cpeltz… I don’t think that the generalization that 4-yr graduation is more likely at a private than a public is a good one to apply in a specific school-choice decision.</p>
<p>I’d want to look at ease of getting needed/desired classes on a school by school basis.</p>
<p>I didn’t thinkt to post it, but my step grand-S, also graduating this year, will complete his Engineering degree <em>ahead</em> of time. Don’t ask me how that happened, but it did. At a public - his in-state flagship. He graduates in December.</p>
<p>Also, if cost is your consideration, 4 1/2 - 5 years at an in-state public could certainly end up costing less than 4 years at a private. Depends on relative COA and financial aid, of course.</p>
<p>S “on track” to graduate in 4 years, international studies, private; 12 AP credits, 1 summer study abroad for 8 hours but not enrolled 1 semester (internship instead)</p>