What was the elimination rate each year at your alma mater?
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Anonymous
| Of the entering freshman class, what percent made it to sophomore year? Of the students who made it sophomore year, what percent made it to junior year? Of the students who made it to junior year, what percent made it to senior year? Of the students who made it to senior year, what percent made it to graduation? |
Anonymous
| ? You want us to compile research for you? |
Anonymous
| The official word for this is attrition, if you're googling it. |
Anonymous
| And the cds will have the number or something close to it |
Anonymous
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2016-2019 Freshmen Retention Rate
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return Northeastern ranked #14 keeps on surprising in every category. (comapred to it's overall rank #49) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 99% University of Chicago 99% Columbia University 98% Johns Hopkins University 98% Northwestern University 98% University of Notre Dame 98% Brown University 97% California Institute of Technology 97% Carnegie Mellon University 97% Cornell University 97% Dartmouth College 97% Duke University 97% Georgia Institute of Technology 97% Northeastern University 97% Rice University 97% University of California--Berkeley 97% University of California--Los Angeles 97% University of Florida 97% University of Michigan--Ann Arbor 97% University of Pennsylvania 97% University of Virginia 97% Vanderbilt University 97% Georgetown University 96% Stanford University 96% University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill 96% University of Texas at Austin 96% Villanova University 96% Washington University in St. Louis 96% Boston College 95% Tufts University 95% University of Georgia 95% University of Maryland--College Park 95% University of Rochester 95% University of Southern California 95% University of Wisconsin--Madison 95% William & Mary 95% Worcester Polytechnic Institute 95% Emory University 94% Florida State University 94% Gonzaga University 94% Lehigh University 94% North Carolina State University 94% Ohio State University--Columbus 94% Princeton University 94% Santa Clara University 94% Stevens Institute of Technology 94% University of California--Irvine 94% University of California--San Diego 94% University of Connecticut 94% University of Washington 94% Wake Forest University 94% Boston University 93% Case Western Reserve University 93% Clemson University 93% New York University 93% Pennsylvania State University--University Park 93% Purdue University--West Lafayette 93% Rutgers University--New Brunswick 93% Texas A&M University 93% Tulane University 93% |
Anonymous
| I went to Cal. So many people don’t make it to second semester that they have a whole new admittance category for January freshman starts. |
Anonymous
| The attrition rate is also heavily tied to family income. Look at the top schools on that list. I'd bet the few kids who do drop out are low-income students. |
Anonymous
Or it could be that college simply wasn't for them. People's brains don't all work the same either. |
Anonymous
Money isn't the only factor when it comes to dropping out of college. Other factors such as maturity, work ethic, natural intelligence, strength of character, etc. are also important. Believe it or not, what kind of person you are is more important than how rich or poor your family is. |
Anonymous
Pregnancy too. It happens. |
Anonymous
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OP, I attended a LAC in the early '80s. The attrition rate increased sharply starting sophomore winter as Reagan decimated the budget and many classmates lost financial aid or access to other programs allowing them to attend college. Then another group of people left over junior year as Reagan's cuts had "trickled down" to state budgets and those states retrenched their aid for higher ed.
Absent that, the attrition rate would have been much lower, largely reflecting individual, rather than national, circumstances. |
Anonymous
At the UC schools & Penn State and particular, a lot of the disadvantaged students don’t arrive on campus until Year 3. |
Anonymous
College isn’t for everyone. |
Anonymous
| <90% retention is a red flag to me |
Anonymous
Your kid better be a good student then because you’re going to have to rule out the vast majority of schools. |