<p>Brian…congrats on the bill of health! That’s huge! Best wishes for continued health. I’m glad you can go so some auditions with your son as you are so involved in his admissions process. Wow, you have a very long list of schools. His bases are covered! That’s a lot of applications. </p>
<p>I think retention rate is not the same as discussing cuts in programs. Retention rates refer to how many stay at a college for four years. Students leave colleges for a myriad of reasons…colleges that have NO cuts. I don’t think you can ascertain how many were cut by looking at retention rates. Kids left my D’s BFA program and none were cut. I know kids who have left schools with cut programs who left entirely unrelated to the cuts and were not cut by the program either. There are lots of reasons students leave a college. Retention is something to look at. But I’d look into cut programs and policies as well as they are not the same as examining retention rates.</p>