What is a Super Senior?
A college education resulting in a bachelor’s degree used to mean that students graduated in four years. On a semester-based system, the student took an average of five classes a semester in order to graduate within this time period. Provided the student only majored in one area, passing all your classes on the five-class per semester average tended to mean you earned your diploma in four years. There are some significant economic advantages to getting through college as quickly as possible, since students will pay less, and some students even complete their coursework in three years instead of four. The flipside to the four-year plan has led to the term super senior, students who instead of taking four years of college take five or more. Each year of college, like each year of high school is linked to a named status. The first year students are freshman, the second, sophomores, the third juniors and the last seniors. A word had to be developed to account for people who remained at sen
