IP: More College Students Drop Out Than Graduate

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
>
> More College Students Drop Out Than Graduate
> By Leslie Gevirtz
>
> BOSTON (Reuters) - Fewer than half of U.S. college students make it to
> graduation, which means that Americans have a better chance of getting an
> accurate weather report than they have of getting a university degree.
>
> Less than 50 percent of students entering four-year colleges or universities
> actually graduate, Council for Aid to Education (CAE) researchers said in a
> report. ''And that's a conservative estimate,'' said Richard Hersh who
> co-authored the report on the quality of higher education for the National
> Governors Association.
>
> As for the weather reports, a spokesman for the U.S. National Weather
> Service said: ``If you want to know if it's going to rain tomorrow, then
> we're accurate 88 percent of the time.''
>
> Backing up the CAE report, figures from ACT, formerly the American College
> Testing Service, show the graduation rate at four-year public institutions
> fell to 41.9 percent in 2000, while the rate at private schools was 55.1
> percent.
>
> --SNIP--
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