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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

Most of the top schools have exceptionally high retention rates.  There are always going to be those who complain about  their experiences.  The vast majority of students attending the schools listed above at the upper end of the spectrum must be doing something right.  Take that into consideration when reading these comments. [/quote]

OP here.

There is a HUGE gulf between not recommending a school to your kid and hating it so much that you dropped out.  Good grief. 
I'm not going to enthusiastically suggest my daughter go to CWRU.  I think she can have a better experience elsewhere.  However, I wasn't miserable enough that I dropped out and moved home or transferred.  The vast, VAST majority of students will stick out a less-than-ideal experience (especially at a competitive school).  [/quote]

+1. Transferring is hard, for a number of reasons, and IMO the decision to leave a top college is a particularly fraught one. Most kids have worked very hard to get there, and as a group they are accustomed to pushing themselves through difficult circumstances. Most of them place a high value on attending a top school, but many of those schools are full of competitive, striving students. If you decide that's not the atmosphere you want, where do you transfer to? There aren't many students who want to leave Chicago to go to UIUC, even if doing so would make them happier. So they stay at Chicago.[/quote]

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