<p>My wife taught at several community colleges and encountered many students who dropped out due to financial or family reasons. I don't believe that explains the dropout rate at the State U that I mentioned. I don't know how to assess the financial demographics, but this is an affluent area of the country and there are certainly a lot of expensive cars in the parking lots. I do know for sure that the State U is very generous with financial aid especially when compared with private colleges. I don't know why they dropout but the statistics do imply that a lot fewer than 80% are happy.</p>