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Co-terminal degrees are both common and can be completed in five total years (one year beyond normal).  They just require advanced planning, and need to be applied to…

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Excellent point.  I think co-term degrees, nationwide, will increase in popularity to reflect the level of education needed for an ever more complex society.  You are right that they require advance planning--you usually need to know that you are going co-term a couple of years in advance to get the requirements right.  I am not sure, for example, if a transfer student could really pull off a co-term program.  Thinking back, the WBB players who got a 5th year scholarship did not know until their 4th year, if not the end of their 4th year.  Too late to do a co-term program unless it had already been planned.

This issue of timing is likely the reason for the difference between Wilson and Carrington.  Wilson was promised a scholarship early enough for her to arrange to apply and be accepted into her MFA program--although I don't know if it was considered a co-term program or not. In any case, when another scholarship came up very late that might have been offered to Carrington, it was no longer possible for her to apply and be accepted to an MA program--if she had wanted to (and she may not have wanted to.)  Baylor, however, managed to figure out a master's program for her at a relatively late date.  Anyone know, by the way, what that degree was and whether Carrington finished it?  I'm hoping it was a good degree for her that she will use....

All this talk is just a way of making clear that getting a 5th year at Stanford is not solely the prerogative of a coach granting a scholarship.  In fact, at Stanford it can be a pretty tall order.  Some universities have a plethora of non competitive MA programs and could expect an athlete to always be able to get into one or another, e.g. your classic one year MS in Sports Management.  I teach at one of those places.  Stanford does not have those kinds of degrees.

[81alum]

Co-terminal degrees are both common and can be completed in five total years (one year beyond normal).  They just require advanced planning, and need to be applied to…

https://studentservices.stanford.edu/my-...e-programs

BC

Excellent point.  I think co-term degrees, nationwide, will increase in popularity to reflect the level of education needed for an ever more complex society.  You are right that they require advance planning--you usually need to know that you are going co-term a couple of years in advance to get the requirements right.  I am not sure, for example, if a transfer student could really pull off a co-term program.  Thinking back, the WBB players who got a 5th year scholarship did not know until their 4th year, if not the end of their 4th year.  Too late to do a co-term program unless it had already been planned.

This issue of timing is likely the reason for the difference between Wilson and Carrington.  Wilson was promised a scholarship early enough for her to arrange to apply and be accepted into her MFA program--although I don't know if it was considered a co-term program or not. In any case, when another scholarship came up very late that might have been offered to Carrington, it was no longer possible for her to apply and be accepted to an MA program--if she had wanted to (and she may not have wanted to.)  Baylor, however, managed to figure out a master's program for her at a relatively late date.  Anyone know, by the way, what that degree was and whether Carrington finished it?  I'm hoping it was a good degree for her that she will use....

All this talk is just a way of making clear that getting a 5th year at Stanford is not solely the prerogative of a coach granting a scholarship.  In fact, at Stanford it can be a pretty tall order.  Some universities have a plethora of non competitive MA programs and could expect an athlete to always be able to get into one or another, e.g. your classic one year MS in Sports Management.  I teach at one of those places.  Stanford does not have those kinds of degrees.