I see a topic like this and what comes to mind is some crazy parent gleefully celebrating the dropout from a top30 by a former classmate of their dear snowflake that got rejected.

Kids dropout everywhere, life happens. No high school is going to track this or even care.

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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

That doesn't mean the private high school would have access to your college outcome.

My kid dropped out for non-academic reasons. The private high school, where a sibling still attends, has no idea.

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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.

DC's private HS actually asked for students to sign away the ability to track their college performance.

Anonymous wrote: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?

Zero from T40-50 and better.

2% year transfer from lower ranked schools to UVA

Less than 1% ea year drop out from lower ranked schools and never finish

I went to a T30 and they really didn’t let people drop out. There was tons of support, and the most likely path was counseled to an easier major.

I was vastly unprepared for my major, probably any major, from rural southern high school. I did really really bad freshman year, and squeaked out with a b- average in a science major. It was actually unpleasant academically and socially, I just didn’t belong but it definitely leveled up my life in some ways (but probably not my career because I was also unaware of what to look for in a job and just went with what I was familiar with from my limited experience and low risk tolerance).

But in general I don’t think anyone drops out for being unprepared, if I made it! Drinking problem, maybe.

Anonymous wrote: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

This. A good number of kids from my (CA) high school went to Berkeley. Many changed majors from pre med or engineering to something else.

Anonymous wrote: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?

How would anyone possibly know this? MYOB.

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

This. I was a college dropout (not T30 college, but for HS I was at a Big 3 private NWDC school). I did eventually complete my degree, but I’ve had zero interaction with my HS (which I hated) since graduation. They still send my alumni mail to my parents’ house. They have no idea what I did after grad.

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

BS BS BS

Keep telling yourself that

Lots of QB admits were struggling. Many eventually transferred to state schools or community colleges.