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Originally Posted by BetterRed
@DNSB - dunno about there, but here we have mature age students. I often see reports of 70+ year OAP freshers in the magazine for oldies that 'they' insist on stuffing into my PO Box. I'm wondering if any of them ever earn an income sufficient to pay back their HECS debt.
BR
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Some of the items in the profile such as reading 300 books per year for the last 4 years don't fit the the idea of a mature student. Going by my record, it would have been 300 books per year for the last 5 decades.
As for mature students, I have one friend who graduated from UBC with a degree in microbiology at the age of 64. She had spent 1.5 years at university in the 70's and one of her lifelong regrets was that she had not finished her degree. Not that she's going to put it to much use but her family enjoyed see her and one of her grandchildren graduating in the same ceremony.
Oddly she claimed that hardest part of the process was convincing the university that she was one of the people who deserved a spot. The mature student program is very competitive.