How do colleges know if you're doing multiple degrees at the same time ?

[alzee]

Let's take it to an extreme. Let's say they were willing to award you any degree you had the units for, regardless of when you earned them or whether they were used for a previous degree. You could rack up 10 different Bachelor's degrees that did not necessarily reflect much additional effort over 1 or 2 degrees, just by careful choices of courses and degrees. Especially if you get them from different schools. People looking at your credentials would expect that each degree represented a significant effort, when it did not.

I see a problem in that.

So degrees don't represent knowledge, they represent effort? This is something many of us have believed for quite some time..