Don't Coterm

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As my third year at Stanford comes to a close, many of my friends are considering the eternal Stanford question: to coterm or not to coterm. Coterming would mean stapling a year-long master's degree program to your regular B.A. or B.S., usually taking the form of a fifth year. (For overachievers, a coterm can be completed in the fourth year.) The program’s popularity is why Stanford measures its six-year—not the standard four-year—graduation rate. While still a master's program, the coterm is more of an "undergrad plus" than a traditional master’s program in its own right. Though some coterms live in grad housing—cooking their own meals, fraternizing with grad students—many live in undergrad housing with their undergrad friends, living identically to how they did as undergrads (or, if they do live in grad housing, with their friends from undergrad and shuttling between undergrad dorms and their own). I can’t say that a coterm (perhaps in Modern Thought and Literature! Slavic Languages

Table of Contents As my third year at Stanford comes to a close, many of my friends are considering the eternal Stanford question: to coterm or not to coterm . Coterming would mean stapling a year-long master's degree program to your regular B.A. or B.S., usually taking the form of a fifth year. (For overachievers, a coterm can be completed in the fourth year.) The program’s popularity is why Stanford measures its six-year—not the standard four-year—graduation rate. While still a master's program, the coterm is more of an "undergrad plus" than a traditional master’s program in its own right. T

Don't Coterm

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