Alarming academic counsellors and shocking his friends, one U student will actually graduate within four years.
“I guess that’s pretty good, huh?” said Dale Lyndsbout, who transferred to the U from Salt Lake Community College two years ago.
Lyndsbout is one of only 12 students who will graduate this year who began their higher education in 1998. Of the 12, 11 are marketing majors, so they don’t really count. Lyndsbout is an English major, which only barely counts.
“When I plugged in that I was going to graduate within [four years], the DARS report came back, ‘What you talkin’ ’bout, Willis?'” Lyndsbout said. “I guess they don’t get a lot of that.”
Given that each entering freshman class takes, on average, seven years to graduate, Lyndsbout is something of an oddity.
“Every year we have a couple of these,” said Candi Soddoff, co-director of academic advising. “But they usually change their major at the last minute to something like, oh what’s the ridiculous one that makes everybody snicker, communication.”
For his next amazing trick, Lyndsbout will astound parents and professors alike by actually getting a job with his degree.
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