Originally Posted by C130

Agreed. They are looking for continuous job experience (working through HS, college, and up to now) coupled with a good work ethic and a great education. If you were one of those guys who was not fortunate enough to have someone or some entity pay everything for you to go straight through college while not working, I would definitely include that in your application some way.

I would like to think that if they saw you working full time as a bag slinger or as an enlisted Air Force mechanic full time from 2001-2008 while also completing a bachelors during that same time, that they would be able to put 2 and 2 together seeing you bust your ass with a full time job and a full-time student load. Either way, try to annotate that somewhere in your application about working full-time while getting your undergrad. Hopefully that is a very well-deserved exception to the 5-year degree time limit.

Now, if you are like some people I know and blew Daddy's money for 8 years, while not working on the side, and all you have to show is a 2.0 GPA in history degree. Well, I can see why they would frown upon that.