SEASIDE, Calif. -- "Super Senior" might not be defined in the Oxford Dictionary but the California State University System is considering banning it from its curriculum with a potential fee those students could face in the future.
While it looks like the CSU backed out of a vote to put the extra cost on the so-called group, it's still not a dead issue.
A Super Senior is anyone taking at least 150 units, 30 more than the graduation requirement regardless of the circumstance.
But for Super Seniors like Alycia Drube she had to take extra units in order to study abroad.
"Now they're telling us we have to rush our degree or we're not going to be able to afford the degree that they require us to have. There's no win in this situation," she said.
"We do know students start in one major and then do change and maybe take classes that don't end up pertaining to their major, but I think the whole hope was setting the level high enough it wouldn't penalize those students, but would encourage students that had spent maybe an extra year or two on their four-year degree to move along and graduate," said James Tinney, senior communications officer at CSU Monterey Bay.
"A lot of classes get filled up really fast and it's not my fault," said Andrew Gonzales, junior.
CSU said the point is not to target those students trying to take the classes they need, but the ones who are taking unecessary classes.
Bottom line there's too many "what ifs," so the Trustees going back to the drawing board.
"If they could table the decision two more years that'll be great for me," Gonzales said.
There are 9,000 Super Seniors across the CSU system.
40,000 courses are repeated each year.
