<p>According to USNWR and The College Board, their 6 year graduation rate is only 58%. FSC is a respectable selective institution and they guarantee graduation in 4 years... Why could this be? </p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Over 20% of freshman don’t return for their sophomore year and that attrition rate continues throughout the remaining years but a lower pace. Why is that?</p>
<p>1) some may find it too expensive for the experience and transfer to a less expensive school
2) some find the school a poor fit socially/academically and transfer
3) some are disillusioned with college in general and quit</p>
<p>This graduation rate is fairly typical for a college with FSC’s selectivity.</p>
<p>thank you!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.flsouthern.edu/academics/four-year-graduation.aspx”>http://www.flsouthern.edu/academics/four-year-graduation.aspx</a> includes guidelines like completing >= 31 credits per year, not failing any courses, registering for classes promptly, not changing major after first year.</p>
<p>Students graduating late (or not at all) tend to be the ones who do not do these things. Such students tend to be more common at schools with lower admission selectivity.</p>
<p>It is a beautiful little college in a very blah town. It had to be the 4th or 5th school in a row that went on and on about ‘designing your own major’ and how they could offer everything to everyone. Really? An LAC that can offer everything? I don’t think so and I don’t think they should try.</p>