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Originally Posted by divine1966
Both I and my husband went to school again later in life. No one ever told us we took someone’s spot or are slow or taking someone else’s social security (how?).
Who are these people who told you that? Were they talking to you directly actually telling you that you have slow brain?
I can’t wrap my mind around it. I know many people who obtain degrees later in life. I’ve never heard them having issues with 20-year olds peers. No one typically cares about college students’ age. Non traditional students isn’t anything unusual and it’s extremely common. Who are these people who care?
In addition college education in the US isn’t free so how can anyone take anyone’s spot? I paid my tuition and John Smith paid his. Both usually owe student loan regardless of age. This is puzzling. What kind of college did you attend where your younger peers spoke like this to you ?
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Yes, sadly. I was in a McNair program (of all things), where the director told me that "older people don't do well in this program," and the competition to get into a PhD program (specifically) was very cut-throat. Some of my peers in that program told me that. This was back in 2014. I actually reported these things and wound up leaving the program, due to health complications and the program not accommodating me the same way the classes accommodated me. I found issue with that, even though it was supposed to be a program for all minorities, just just one particular kind.
I was really hurt.