<p>Given the thousands upon thousands of qualified kids for a single spot at the nations top schools, it would seem logic that the most spectacular kids get the spots at many top universities, yet the rate of attendance seems to hover around 75% at most schools. Because of this, isn’t it quite possible that your ability to prove that the school you are applying to is the best fit for your academic interests outweighs many other factors?</p>
<p>I believe retention rates aren’t the MOST important factor in applying to colleges, but they are certainly important. The college I really want to go to has a retention rate of 97%, so I’m not worried. :)</p>
<p>1MX is referring to matriculation rates (the number of kids accepted who end up attending).</p>
<p>Those numbers hover around 70 percent because plenty of kids accepted to one top school are accepted to several.</p>
<p>oh. my bad.</p>
<p>Matriculation rates would be higher if some of those crazy kids out there would stop applying to tons of schools.</p>
<p>That’s what I am saying. Because kids apply to so many schools, your expressed interest in the school outweighs many other factors.</p>