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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only about 60% of incoming students graduate. Of the 40% who leave, 12% transferred. Does anyone know why this rate is so high? I want to like my in-state options, but this is disappointing! [/quote]
UMBC is a school that has a very large contingent of lower income, first-gen, commuters, and/or underrepresented minorities. They often have to work many hours, commute to school from a far distance, and face barriers to success that higher income students do not. [/quote]

True but [b]the school needs to figure it out[/b]. It serves no one when a kid doesn’t graduate and walks away in debt and having lost years of earnings potential. [/quote]

Why does the school need to figure it out?[/quote]

People what are ignorant thing there is something the school is doing that makes them graduate. [/quote]

That is truly stupid and sad thing to say. The only good thing in college education is the fact that the college administrators have not yield to press to lower the bars unlike public school system administrators (e.g., MCPS). Colleges are supposed to be hard. Students are expected to work and work hard. There is nothing to “figure” out if kids think it’s an extension of HS.[/quote]

I don't think that is true.  Colleges live and die over rankings.  They want a good 4 year grad rate.  Weed out classes are not good for that.[/quote]

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