Public unis risky?

noimagination
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:17:05 +0000

I’m sure they could give you exact numbers if you wanted them…

~64% in 4 years, 78% in 6. You can make yourself part of that 64% if you try.

However, I think Gapyear is right in there being more support at a LAC (and thus better effectiveness) for students to graduate in 4 years. For an example, I looked at the CDS for the local state college and a local LAC. The number who completed school in 4 years was very similar, but the class size at the state school was almost 4 times larger.

Correlation does not imply causation. I’m not saying that your overall conclusion is wrong, but that single datapoint doesn’t indicate much at all.