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On the opposite end of the spectrum are students like Gretchen R. Passe ’03, who have sped through their college career in three years.
Passe says she has always expected to graduate today. One of the deciding factors in her decision to come to Harvard was the opportunity to graduate early through advanced standing.
Passe says she views the lure of graduating in three years more as a matter of dollars and cents—an opportunity to save the cost of a fourth year of tuition.
“Forty-thousand dollars is a lot of money,” Passe says. “Since there are a finite amount of resources in the world, I thought it would be hard to justify [a fourth year]. Harvard is a wonderful education, but I don?...
And while Passe says she would have passed up her fourth year regardless of her options for next year, she will attend Harvard Law School next year. She will even remain a resident of Lowell House in exchange for helping to run formal House events.