Colleges kids leave, and why?

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But that doesn’t explain why a school like, say, Franklin & Marshall has a 6-year graduation rate of 79.0% while many similar schools with student bodies of similar academic qualifications and socioeconomic profiles, e.g., Connecticut College, have graduation rates in the high 80s (88%, to be exact, in CC’s case).

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<p>I just don’t know the two schools in enough depth to even hazard a guess. I would want to look at gender issues, academic departments, and grading/graduation requirements. I know that at number of the NESCAC colleges have extremely lenient academic requirements (D’s count as passing, etc.). The colleges I’m familiar with in the Centennial Conference have standards that require C averages and Cs in all courses after sophmore year to count towards graduation, so there will tend to be more academic weeding out. </p>

<p>I don’t know if the policies of the two schools follow suit in their respective conferences and, frankly, it would take more work than I care to invest to research it. Those are, however, the kinds of issues I would look at when you see differences within a narrow tier of schools.</p>

<p>For example, you will never see a six-year graduation rate of 97% at Swarthmore or Caltech. The academic programs are simply to rigorous for EVERYONE to make it.</p>