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Anonymous wrote:Kids drop out for lots of reasons, not just being unprepared. Parents die, mental health issues, parents lost their job and can’t afford college tuition, all of those things are outside the student’s control. I think dropout rates aren’t going to reflect just college preparedness

This. Academic problems are actually a small minority of the cause of drop outs.

It’s pretty rare for a kid to drop out because they weren’t prepared academically, especially at selective schools. Yeah, some who were tutored, prepped, and packaged within an inch of their lives will have a rough time freshman year; but if they have the resources to get them in, they’ll likely have the resources to get them out with a degree.

But generally, “unprepared” is more likely due to general immaturity than any academic shortcomings. Some kids just aren’t ready to be on their own yet.

Absolutely no one knows this. Just gossipy moms who *think* they do.

Anonymous wrote:Colleges have drop out rates. hS don’t follow you after you graduate unless you become famous.

private schools will hound you to donate to their school fund

Anonymous wrote:Kids drop out for lots of reasons, not just being unprepared. Parents die, mental health issues, parents lost their job and can’t afford college tuition, all of those things are outside the student’s control. I think dropout rates aren’t going to reflect just college preparedness

This. Academic problems are actually a small minority of the cause of drop outs.

Colleges have drop out rates. hS don’t follow you after you graduate unless you become famous.

Anonymous wrote:Zero from my Group of Seven school. Any attrition, however minimal, occurred before HS graduation

BS BS BS

Anonymous wrote:Our school tracks. Zero.

No school tracks.
That is ridiculous.

No college is giving them that info and all alumni are not reporting to them.

Far more common than dropping out of college altogether is dropping from a more challenging to a less challenging major.

https://youtu.be/TYCxbFad36g?si=CaOF24b22CDswJEl&t=6m37s

Anonymous wrote:Kids drop out for lots of reasons, not just being unprepared. Parents die, mental health issues, parents lost their job and can’t afford college tuition, all of those things are outside the student’s control. I think dropout rates aren’t going to reflect just college preparedness

+1

Zero from my Group of Seven school. Any attrition, however minimal, occurred before HS graduation

Kids drop out for lots of reasons, not just being unprepared. Parents die, mental health issues, parents lost their job and can’t afford college tuition, all of those things are outside the student’s control. I think dropout rates aren’t going to reflect just college preparedness

Who even knows?

Most people are not going to have solid data on this. Students might be aware of particular friends who dropped out of their colleges, but not much beyond the friend group. High school alum relationships are too disjointed.

Our school tracks. Zero.

Would be interesting to see what is the dropout rate in your high school. So you made it to the top 30ish colleges, did your high school prepare you well?