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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check out Colleges that Change Lives.  It's a book about overpriced second tier colleges for B students for parents who wish their kids could get into top schools but can't.  DCUM families drool over the book . . .   [/quote]

OP, instead of believing this nasty post, I suggest you search for other threads on DCUM about CTCL.  No need to rehash here what has already been discussed ad nauseum by proponents and opponents of those colleges and the types of students who actually attend them[/quote]

[b]OP, CTCL schools give very generous merit aid. Get him to study for the SATs. It pays dividends.[/b] [/quote]

OP, CTCL schools are second tier and half their students don't graduate.  They're a total scam.  Send your kid to a solid Catholic college -- Jesuit if you can -- and they'll actually graduate with a marketable degree and do well.  Don't waste your time on second tier liberal arts colleges. [/quote]
You keep saying that. I do not think the word “half” means what you think it means. I looked it up: 
St. Olaf College - 82%
Rhodes College - 82%
Denison University - 82% 
Whitman College - 81% 
Centre College - 80%
Hillsdale College - 79%
Wheaton College - 77%
Hampshire College - 75% 
Juanita College - 74% 
Kalamazoo College - 73%
Beloit College - 72% 
Clark University - 71% 
The College of Wooster - 70%
Hope College - 70%
St. John’s College - 70% 
Cornell College - 68% 
Knox College - 68% 
Southwestern University - 67%
Willamette University - 67% 
Puget Sound - 66%
Austin College - 66%
Wabash College - 66%
Lawrence University 66% 
Allegheny College - 66%
Bard College - 66% 
Hendrix College - 66% 
St. Mary’s College - 65%
Agnes Scott College - 64% 
Birmingham Southern - 63% 
Goucher College - 63% 
Eckerd College - 63% 
Reed College - 61%
Ohio Wesleyan College - 61% 
Millsaps College - 60% 
McDaniel College - 59%
Earlham College - 58% 
St. John’s College New Mexico - 54%
University of Lynchburg - 52% 
New College of Florida - 52%
Guilford College - 51% 
Hiram College - 51%
Emory and Henry College - 48% 
Evergreen State - 42%

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Thanks for posting all the numbers so folks can see just how low the overall graduation rates are.  Here are the Catholic schools I mentioned for comparison:

Providence:  86 percent
Loyola Baltimore:  83 percent
Fairfield: 80 percent
Scranton:  80 percent
St Joe's:  73 percent

I'd go Jesuit 
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Is this comparing 4 year rates to 6 year graduation rates? Some schools calculate a 5 year rate. Please specify to ensure this is a fair comparison. [/quote]

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