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[quote=Anonymous][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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Look, it’s not a magic formula. The smarter the kid (SAT metrics) and the richer the kid, the less likely they are to drop out or transfer. School with lots of smart rich kids have high retention rates. Schools with poor, low-academic kids have low retention rates. There
May be some exceptions to that rule, but not many.[/quote]

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