No, they're undergrads.

And…yeah. I'm not sure how, with Erik especially, you can take away Schmidt and the Holocaust and Erik's powers and still have . . . Erik. That is both the dilemma of AUs and of AUs in this fandom in particular, I think.

But I have given up saying I won't read whatever, because then inevitably I do wind up reading and enjoying it, in favor of taking things on a case-by-case basis.