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Their stories reveal the trade-offs of early graduation: Every semester saved in tuition is also potentially one less semester to gain the internships and connections that help launch careers.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

Kratima Divakar, a 26-year-old lawyer from India, started attending during her first semester as a grad student.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

The next day, she was placed on administrative leave and told her contract would end after the semester.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

Then came Oct. 7th during her first semester in upstate New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

She’s seen him at lunch every day, and now that it’s second semester, they have AP English Comp together.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Instead of taking on summer internships or job-shadowing opportunities between semesters, he worked a retail gig to pay for college.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

Lee then focused on graduating early, packing his remaining coursework into two dense semesters — taking seven classes during one of them.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

At that point he was studying remotely having left Harvard after three semesters to join the Philadelphia Union.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

But what looks to some like abandonment feels to others like a new beginning – and that makes me excited to see how high the women in “Rooster” might fly in coming semesters.

From Salon ● May 11, 2026

I’ve already finished 6 semesters of high school Spanish online.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty