<p>twocents,
In their CDSs, colleges report data for 4-year graduation, 5-year graduation and 6-year graduation. I think that all are legitimate for comparison. In the data presented earlier, I focused on 4-year data as one of the potential concerns at some public universities is that there is less institutional flexibility which sometimes causes problems for students, eg, not getting access to courses in order to complete a college’s/degree program’s requirements. </p>
<p>As for the universe of schools, my data set was comprised solely of colleges that are ranked in either the USWNR Top 50 national universities or the USNWR Top 25 LACs. I did not note this in my presentation (#15). I regret the oversight.</p>
<p>Re the dataset that I chose for this thread and virtually all others for I post, my objective is to compare schools which have the highest degree of interest on CC. In addition, these are the schools that have the highest incidence of cross-applications and cross-admits. By comparing this universe of schools, it allows the reader to see how a variety of highly ranked and highly different colleges compare on a broad range of statistics. </p>
<p>Finally, it takes a lot of time to gather and organize all of this data and there is a limit to how much time and energy I have. If you or some other poster wants to collect, organize, and present the data for colleges beyond the ones I am posting on, then please be my guest.</p>