<p>Those two stats were included in our info sheets DD put together last year. I think it just helps to paint a picture of a school. She didn’t use it as a definitive cutoff criteria but it was useful.</p>
<p>For example, one school on her list (UA-Birmingham) had an abysmal 4 year graduation rate (I don’t have it in front of me, but I want to say 14%.) That concerned me, but they have such fantastic health science programs that it remained on the list. That red flag led us to find out that it is a commuter school (hence the low grad rate: a lot of people take longer because they’re working and commuting.) D loved her visit, but decided that she wanted more of a community since she would be living there and that she could always go there for grad school.</p>