<p>No, you’re right, they are not Ivy-brand. I didn’t know that these were the schools you meant, because well-respected, and not schools I would expect to be ill-served by a retention measure–except maybe the women’s colleges. (I think there can be fit issues there, because some women can’t accurately predict how they’ll like that environment.)</p>
<p>Can you point us to the COFHE data that concludes that freshmen at Ivies are unhappy relative to their COFHE peers? That sounds precisely like the kind of thing institutions wouldn’t make public, but kudos to those that were willing to be open about it.</p>