<p>not meant to be misleading - just poorly phrased.</p>
<p>My point still is - that if you do not graduate within 6 years you won’t show up in the statistic, and that you are only eligible for institutional aid for 8 semesters (I don’t think there is any limit on the number of years it takes to accumulate those eight). Not all schools have an eight semester limit.</p>
<p>Aside from that - I’m not convinced that this is an important statistic - even as a parent making sacrifices to send a student to Reed. I went to a small art school where it was a given that about 1/3 of the freshman class left before graduating for one reason or another. In many cases it was just a poor fit. I know many people with successful lives who took 5 to 10 years to finish an undergraduate degree. Sometimes I think this is even the better way.</p>