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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can't blame Sasha for transferring to USC. Classes at UMich end Tuesday, yet Monday they're predicting 1 to 3 inches of snow.

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I had light snow today in Pa.[/quote]

And it’s 40s and raining today in Boston. I’d take a fun spring snow over cold rain any day. Heck, it’s in the 40s here, and cold again tonight. Yet somehow the college students on the east coast will survive and thrive, just as they will in Michigan. [/quote]

Not many transfer out of Harvard and MIT for warmer pastures.[/quote]

And not many transfer out of UMich either. As a PP pointed out, the freshman retention rate is 97%.[/quote]

"[b]Not many" is relative.[/b] 3% of a massive U-M first-year class is about 225 students, which would be nearly 15% of the Yale first-year class.

How is this measured anyways? Our daughter transferred out of a T30 and did not notify anyone. Transferring just involved sending a transcript when applying and another transcript after she finished courses at the prior college and wanted those credits transferred in. She just didn't enroll that fall at the old college, but she could have, her enrollment login and email still worked for years after. Just as I'm sure Sasha's enrollment login and email at U-M still works, so is Sasha even counted on as a "loss"?[/quote]

That's the point of percentages isn't it? If Yale had a class of 7000 they might have the same number of non-returning students. Although according to US News, Yale's freshman retention rate is 91%, so proportionally more students are transferring or leaving, which seems surprising.

The retention measurement isn't transfers for any institution, it's returning students. So when your DC didn't return to her school (e.g., enroll for classes and pay tuition), she would not be counted as a returning student.[/quote]

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