a good student

[TheParser]

If I didn't know whether my co-worker had graduated from college or not, could I say "He's been a good student in college."?

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[5jj]

Well, how about the college sentence? If I didn't know whether my co-worker had graduated from college or not, could I say "He's been a good student in college."?

ostap, once again you are pushing things to extremes. In order to create a context for this utterance, you have come up with this:

You have a coworker. You don't know whether he graduated from college or not - indeed, so far you have not told us that you know for a fact he has even attended college (though no doubt you will). For some reason or other you feel the need to tell a third party that your colleague was/has been a good student at college.

I suggest that if you knew that he was/has been a good student, then you'd know whether he graduated or was still at college.