<p>In reading the thread started by the person who is looking for advice on how to write his/her "I'm leaving your school" letter, I wonder if there is a list of schools that students tend to transfer out of (rather than wading through the retention percentages on Princeton Review).</p>
<p>Sure. Just sign up for a year's subscription to USNEWS premium on-line edition. You can sort the list of National Universities or Liberal Arts Colleges by their freshman retention rate. That would be a pretty good indication of students tranfering out.</p>
<p>I think I need a tutorial. ;-P I bought the year's subscription for the premium online edition a few months ago and so far have not been able to get it to tell me anything particularly detailed more than "urban", "rural", "more selective", "most selective" etc.</p>
<p>Here is a brief tutorial as I know it!!</p>
<p>Once you've logged in, click on Best Colleges Home. There you have a list of national unis, lacs etc., Click one of them and it is further filtered between 1st tier, 2nd tier and so on. Click on whichever tier and you will have a list of all unis in that tier with various headings. If you click on average freshman retention rate, it will list the unis with highest retenion first. You can click on any of the other headings to get a sorted list by %.</p>
<p>Hope this helped.</p>