Universities don’t ask for ID when going into individual classes, what classes are at what hours can be found online in their semester coursebook, and all textbooks are available on annas-archive.
So can any dedicated person with enough time, at the cost of school supplies and maybe a parking pass, just go complete a degree plan?
It’s called auditing a class, pretty much every university has a mechanism for this. Otherwise though you’d get caught pretty quick when it turns out I don’t have a record of you. In some 600+ person weedout class you wouldn’t, but any smaller group lecture you’d get noticed on the 1st day when taking roll for waitlist placement.
Oh, oh honey, no. Academia requires years of dedication, hard work, and money. Lots and lots of money.
I actually want someone to test this scenario:
Universities don’t ask for ID when going into individual classes, what classes are at what hours can be found online in their semester coursebook, and all textbooks are available on annas-archive.
So can any dedicated person with enough time, at the cost of school supplies and maybe a parking pass, just go complete a degree plan?
It’s called auditing a class, pretty much every university has a mechanism for this. Otherwise though you’d get caught pretty quick when it turns out I don’t have a record of you. In some 600+ person weedout class you wouldn’t, but any smaller group lecture you’d get noticed on the 1st day when taking roll for waitlist placement.
Yeah, I think it could definitely be done, but unfortunately it would be completely not worth the time since you wouldn’t have any degree.
Depends where you live in fairness.
Edit: on the money front only. The rest is definitely correct.
If you live in Oklahoma it actually doesnt take any work, you can just say “Jesus” and you get a degree