Attrition rates at arch schools

archkid
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:29:38 +0000

Thanks sasimi.
Seems Cornell has a lock on how to attract the best and keep 'em. To get 60 enrolled do you know how many are accepted? There has to be some who decline and go elsewhere (thinking cost or location). Maybe 30 or 40? And then I bet there’s a few hundred more that were nearly but not quite as good as the 60. So where do all these top students go?

Gotta be tough on the state schools that must comply with accepting on stats rather than the whole package. The only arch grad I personally know barely got into UCBerkeley because of spreading himself thin in 10th grade. He went and finished Berkeley in 3.5yrs!

-sara