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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Always wise to check first year retention rate for any school being given serious consideration.

First year retention rates: (Data for period 0f 2017 through Fall 2020)

Kenyon 90%
Grinnell 90%
Oberlin 89%
Denison 88%

According to US News, there are 41 LACs with retention rates above 90%.

90% is very good, but not excellent.[/quote]

This data is iffy, but it makes sense that lower ranked schools see more transfers than higher ranked schools.  A few kids for whom it was more of a Likely than a Reach maybe feel they can climb the ladder.  Nowhere for you to really climb if you are already at Williams or Amherst.[/quote]

Why do you think that the "data is iffy" ? Especially since it is the schools which provided the data over the 4 year period immediately before Covid struck.

Actually these retention rates probably do not accurately reflect student satisfaction since all of these schools utilize a golden handcuffs approach of widespread, fairly generous merit scholarship grant awards.[/quote]

I was finding different figures as I searched but the US News data is probably correct.  https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

I stand by my observation that it is mostly correlated with rankings.  Carleton has a very high retention rate and Northfield MN isn't exactly non-remote.  Nor is Lexington VA but W&L is 97%.  Most of these schools are in fairly isolated locations, and some of them have very depressing winters.  But the midwest schools certainly have more kids who live more than a few hours from home (the east coast schools tend to skew towards east coast kids whereas the midwest schools are really national with a lot of east coast).  Distance from home is probably a variable.
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