Who are the lower 25% people?

[bclintonk]

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@annasdad

Most schools have very high dropout rates freshman-to-sophomore and low graduation rates because they do not have support systems in place for the less-qualified students. But when you qualify it to selective private colleges, that’s a different story (depending on your definition of “selective”).

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<p>It’s not a public-v.-private thing. UC Berkeley’s freshman retention rate is the same as Cornell, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, and USC, and better than Emory and Carnegie Mellon. Berkeley’s 6-year graduation rate is better than Caltech’s. And that’s with UC Berkeley taking a far higher percentage of low-income students, as bluebayou points out in post #18.</p>