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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is odd to me that all of the schools that have a reputation for being unhappy and overly difficult (MIT, Caltech, CMU, UC, JHU, GT) are clustered at the top of the list. Are the reputations not deserved?[/quote]

There you go again, as PPs mentioned, there is no difference between 99 and 97. It does not say anything about anything. [/quote]

As well as for many schools, one should delve deeper and look at the "why kids didn't continue"/demographics of those that didn't return.  If the school has a high international population or a high "first generation" or high number of students with PellGrants (lower income) then those are all populations that might struggle and the reason for not returning might simply have nothing to do with "satisfaction with the university" but more to do with finances/family events/life in general.  Similarly, those can also affect graduation rates.  Likewise if you are at a school with 70% males, the graduation rates might be lower than a school with 70% females, because across the board more males struggle in college than females (every school I've delved deep into the stats has a distinct difference between even White non- first gen/non lower income males and White not-first gen/not lower income females; sometimes it's as much as 5% difference in graduation rates for 4 years and these are at T100 schools).

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