What was the elimination rate each year at your alma mater?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:<90% retention is a red flag to me

+1

[Anonymous]

88% at American

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:<90% retention is a red flag to me

Best of luck in the college search to you and your child. It’s brutal out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:<90% retention is a red flag to me

Best of luck in the college search to you and your child. It’s brutal out there.

good luck to you too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Attrition rate is also heavily tied to IQ. The vast majority of students who get accepted into a college belong there. However, the acceptance decisions are made by human beings, so they can mistaken from time to time. So I'd say it's more likely that few kids who drop out were mistakenly judged as being intelligent enough to attend the college, and by dropping out, have proven they don't belong there. Conversely, the few students who graduate in 4 years at bottom-ranked universities have proven that they probably should've gone somewhere better, as they were most likely mistakenly judged as unintelligent.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Attrition rate is also heavily tied to IQ. The vast majority of students who get accepted into a college belong there. However, the acceptance decisions are made by human beings, so they can mistaken from time to time. So I'd say it's more likely that few kids who drop out were mistakenly judged as being intelligent enough to attend the college, and by dropping out, have proven they don't belong there. Conversely, the few students who graduate in 4 years at bottom-ranked universities have proven that they probably should've gone somewhere better, as they were most likely mistakenly judged as unintelligent.

Nah. The kids who leave are usually smart enough to graduate if they'd stuck to it. But they leave for other reasons - more often than not, mental illness of some kind, ranging from schizophrenia to anxiety / depression.

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Attrition rate for the entire school is pretty meaningless. They don't publish attrition rates for specific majors, which is what you really want to know.

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Anonymous wrote:Attrition rate for the entire school is pretty meaningless. They don't publish attrition rates for specific majors, which is what you really want to know.

No, students usually switch majors when they change mind.

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Anonymous wrote: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%

It has been updated for 2017-20120 admissions.
Northeastern is now #3 after UChicago and MIT.

Simply Amazing. Haters are Shocked.

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Anonymous wrote:88% at American

Transfers count as “attrition,” don’t they?

[Anonymous]

Another good metric is the % that graduated in four years.

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Anonymous wrote:Another good metric is the % that graduated in four years.

6 year grad rate is a better standard these days. Many took gap semesters or years during Covid. And in some programs, like engineering, kids often go to a 5th year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another good metric is the % that graduated in four years.

6 year grad rate is a better standard these days. Many took gap semesters or years during Covid. And in some programs, like engineering, kids often go to a 5th year.

Also a lot of kids change majors, so it takes extra semester(s)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:88% at American

Transfers count as “attrition,” don’t they?

Sure, students leave for many reasons.
Transfer is one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:88% at American

Transfers count as “attrition,” don’t they?

Sure, students leave for many reasons.
Transfer is one of them.

I was just thinking that kids who transfer out of a school like American are probably smarter and more financially secure than average, not less. (The transfer market is usually kindest to full pay students who did well freshman year.) So the retention/attrition rates include both kids who were too slow/poor to keep up, and kids who were too smart/rich to stick around. Because of that, it’s not a great stat to use without having more context about a school.