College Searching/Advice Seeking

ucbalumnus
Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:31:39 +0000

HPuck35:

Re 4 verses 5 years. Correct about some students just not wanting to face the real world and having parents who don’t mind paying for another year of college.

However, there are schools where class availability limits one’s ability to get out in 4. My son went to one of those colleges.

What would be more useful is if graduation rates were reported in comparison to predicted graduation rates based on student characteristics. Some colleges overperform or underperform their predicted graduation rates, but that is not obvious based on raw graduation rates due to the dominant effect of student characteristics.

Also, “class availability issues” are often student excuses when they just don’t want to take the 8am section that is the one with open seats.