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Japplerod notes,"do a lot of people realize that their drawing skills aren't up to par and drop out? If you work hard enough will you be able to keep up with the people who have been drawing throughout high school?"

Response: First, Congratulations on your admission.

As to your questions, you are asking very broad based questions that don't apply to everyone;however, yes, some people do drop out because they find out that they don't have sufficient skill. In addition, some drop out because they can't cope with the enormous workload. The drop out rate is about 8%-10% in total during the freshmen year and probably some small drop out rate in the sophomore year too.

Overall,however, there is very low attrition. If you do a search on the Univerisity of Cincinnati web site, institutional research, you will see that they take about 8 transfers for each of the freshmen, sophomore, junior and senior years in total for all of DAAP. If you assume that 8 drop out each year, that would mean that they lose about 32 kids for each entering class out of about 400-500 freshmen admittees in total. This attrition probably is centered around the design majors such as architecture, graphic design, industrial design, and digital design and transportation design. I would doubt there is much attrition in fine arts or Urban Planning. Those majors probably account for about 250-300 freshmen admittees.Thus, if you assume that about 30 drop out ( over a four year period) for each entering class of the 250-300 freshmen admittees in design majors, you can approximate 10% in total,which isn't bad at all.