<p>i was just googling some info and ran across some info i found interesting... when looking at colleges i had checked retention rates as one piece of info. one school interested in had a fairly low retention rate which was a concern but i just found a file on site that broke that retention rate down by gpa, act scores etc. i havent seen that on very many school sites.
for this particular school the rentention rates goes up significantly based on freshmans gpa and act scores... ie from about a 60% published rate on various college review type sites to 91% for students with gpa above 3.5 and act above 30. wonder how many other colleges have this phenomenon... is it as simple as it appears at first glance...perhaps the school is quite rigorous and the lower gpa/act students end up leaving?? or am i missing some subtle differences</p>