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Do many 4-year colleges/universities even offer associate degrees? Some might, but my initial guess would be those might be in the minority.Unless you get kicked out of a program most will give you an option if you must end early that you can gain an associates with 60 credits. "Special student" ususally means a pre-admit student its a probabtionary thing to make sure someone can deal wtih the program.
"Special" status may vary on a school by school basis. From what I recall of my university's students designated with special status, they could enroll in whatever classes they wished - provided they fulfilled any prerequisites - without having to declare for a major/degree. I seem to recall our special students also had the option to later decide to pursue a degree so long as they met all admissions requirements for either an incoming or transfer student as appropriate as of the date they applied for admission as a regular student. Other schools may be stricter or more lenient.And special student is a non-degree program so he mispresents by stating it was comp science.
Even if it's a non-degree status, it's possible LFJ took a number of CS classes as a special student. Not a degree program, sure, but it might be easily considered a concentration, area of focus, emphasis, etc.
I'd wager 500 quatloos that Honeycomb doesn't care about this with any of its employees and LFJ prefers to be employed at places that care more about ticking off diversity checkboxes than vetting academic and professional credentials.It's also misleading to put a program that you did not finish on it.