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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone, without an agenda, explain why it seems that lower sat scores seem to have no association with dropout or retention rates at these schools? If these tests are such good predictors of success, why wouldn’t. Complete 100 point drop in score not change your outcomes.[/quote]

US colleges spend a lot of time trying to find the best students (while rejecting mos) for a particular class and then exert a ton of effort to ensure they graduate.

A top Canadian school like U Toronto essentially admits everyone who meets a certain threshold but then is quick to fail you out if you aren’t cutting it.  They bake a failure rate into their numbers because they could never have say 100% of the starting EE majors actually continue all 4 years as they don’t plan for that when you get to more advanced classes. [/quote]
Oh this is interesting, and I appreciate the explanation. [b]I much prefer the US where we have centers for teaching excellence [/b]and invest into teaching than dropping out students who are doing poorly. When I was in college, I would have international professors who would express how lucky we are, because, back home, only 10 or so people would get into the top major and top program in their entire country and the failure rate was still insanely high.[/quote]

Or maybe the international programs were more demanding?[/quote]
That’d be great if you had evidence for such speculation. [/quote]

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