<p>^Which is probably the reason it was posted in the first place.</p>
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<p>I started the thread because I want students and their parents to have a realistic idea of their odds of graduating before investing their time and money. Similar reasons prompted an earlier thread about colleges publishing salary information by college major. Don’t you want people to have such information?</p>
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Then I suggest you look for data that gives a standard deviation for each sub-group.</p>
<p>Hi - I just joined this site and this is my first post…still learning the lingo. I wanted to share another useful source of info on grad rates, etc. is the site “college results” org. The info on rates by demographic are particularly informative and it allows comparisons. My D has been successful acceptances & money at her match schools (6), deferrals at 1 reach schools and awaiting decisions at the remaining 3. Yes, lots of schools however, but she wanted to have good choices. I feel as though I could become a college consultant given the crash course we’ve been through this year. Grateful that it’s almost over - decision time! Eeek!</p>
<p>I can’t even figure out how to use the calculator.</p>
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<p>I literally just listed trends I found surprising. I’m not the only one, either.</p>
<p>I’m a little relieved to come upon the realization that the low graduation rate of engineering students after four years is likely due to the high prevalence of 5-year and 3/2 programs for them.</p>
<p>Co-op programs may also be more common for engineering students than students in other majors. They tend to delay graduation by calendar time, although they do not necessarily result in extra semesters of tuition and other costs of attendance (e.g. a student may spend 8 semesters in school over four and a half years, due to taking a semester off during a co-op job).</p>
<p>We just tell our kids we expect them to graduate in four years. We also check a college’s four-year graduation rate: you are more likely to graduate in four years if the vast majority of the other stduents are graduating in four years.</p>
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<p>And in spite of wanting to suggest a REALISTIC idea, you still posted … that toy?</p>
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<p>If there is a better online tool to predict the probability of graduating, I would like to know of it. The site I mentioned also has a spreadsheet that incorporates many predictors, but I think it is too complicated for most people to use.</p>