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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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