[FreedomPoster]

>>In our day, about the only reason people didn't finish in four years was the draft, pregnancy or finances

I was at Ga Tech a little after the time of your college carrer, late '70's/early 80's.

At Tech, 4 years was unusual, but it was because passing 200+ quarter hours of a difficult technical curriculum was just damned hard to do in 12 academic quarters. IIRC, most majors required around 203-206 quarter-hours, which is almost 17 hours per quarter on average. And many classes had 3-hour labs, which counted for 1 quarter hour and required substantial out-of-lab write-ups.

But your point is well taken, I don't think much of the reason for longer time-in-school to graduate today is due to academic rigor of the curricula.

[CatoRenasci]

When I was in the Army, my roomate was a Georgia Tech graduate. He did it, in some sort of engineering, in 4 years, and was the driver of the 'wreck' for two of those years. Smart guy, hard worker, could party effectively.