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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP: Your son has outstanding qualifications.

It may help to look at the freshmen retention rates of elite universities. I will list all National Universities and SLACs with a retention rate of 96% or higher followed by retention rates of schools that are of interest to your son.

99%--MIT & Chicago

98%--Duke, Northwestern, & Notre Dame (Northeastern in Boston as well)

97%--Brown, CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Georgia Tech, Johns Hopkins, Rice, UCLA, UCal-Berkeley, U Florida, Michigan, U Penn, Virginia, & Vanderbilt. (SLACs USMA at West Point, USNA--Annapolis, and Wash & Lee.)

96%--Stanford, Georgetown, UNC, Texas, Villanova, & WashUStL. (SLACs Amherst College, Williams College, Harvey Mudd, and Wellesley College.)

95%--University of Maryland-College Park.

94%--Princeton University & College of William & Mary.

92%--Harvard.

90%--Yale & Fordham.[/quote]

The USNews retention rate above is misleading because it includes a year 2020-2021 that was at the height of the pandemic. Look at the two years before the pandemic, like the one below,  that gives more accurate picture.

https://www.newsweek.com/colleges-highest-retention-rates-mit-yale-stanford-1617739

Yale, for example, has 99% freshman retention rate and was one of the highest.

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