super senior
n.— «Often called “super seniors,” many students stay on long after their fourth year is up trying to get into classes, changing majors or just trying to squeeze out every last college experience.» —“College students dropping out” by Erin Stewart Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah) May 1, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange assignment: find a monarch caterpillar. The result? A memorable lesson in the miracle of metamorphosis...
There was a time when William Shakespeare was just another little seven-year-old in school. Classes in his day were demanding — and all in Latin. A new book argues that this rigorous curriculum actually nurtured the creativity that later flourished...