<p>I chose the word universities because I intended to exclude “Institute of Technology(s)” such as MIT or my alma mater in stating that they lose a lot of engineering majors. The fact is that engineering is harder to get good grades than other majors and students at full universities see those in other majors doing better with less effort and therefore many move on to other fields. My point about my alma mater was that there were a lot fewer areas to move into without leaving the school. I also suspect that much of Harvard’s bio attrition is due to students coming to the realization that they do not want to go to medical school like they thought when the entered college.</p>