<p>The freshman retention rate at Marshall is 97%. The 6-year graduation rate is 92%. (The 4-year graduation rate is substantially lower than 92%, I would imagine.) But Marshall has about 3,600 students – a population more than twice as big as Pomona College. It’s a big student block at USC. Imagine how many students are we talking about here if you have a drop out rate of 8% with a student body of 3,600. And, Marshall accepts hundreds of transfer students to cover up those “lost” (drop out) students, or those students who do not reflect on their statistics. So, all in all, I’m imagining over a hundred of freshmen do not make it to the graduation year at Marshall. On the other hand, nearly everyone, if not everyone, who start at Haas will graduate from the program.</p>