according to posts from actual students who have posted their schools' grade distribution and mandatory drop policies, in addition to some information from the schools themselves, I have found that these schools' actual attrition from academic failure is about the same as at least one other school without a mandatory distribution and a decent curve (B/3.0 curve). I'm wondering at what point should a mandatory drop policy concern you? what is an average amount of academic attrition (at which point we can say it is more dependent on the student than school policies)?
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Mandatory drop policy and attrition rates
- kalvano
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Re: Mandatory drop policy and attrition rates
What the hell is a mandatory drop policy?
- flem
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Re: Mandatory drop policy and attrition rates
kalvano wrote:What the hell is a mandatory drop policy?
I'm assuming something that only festering TTTs that curve out 1/3 of their class have.
- Aberzombie1892
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Re: Mandatory drop policy and attrition rates
Only schools that curve to a B- or below actually require that F's be distributed.
- catholicgirl
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Re: Mandatory drop policy and attrition rates
flem wrote:kalvano wrote:What the hell is a mandatory drop policy?
I'm assuming something that only festering TTTs that curve out 1/3 of their class have.
I'll never forget a conversation I had with a young man who was trying to graduate from Akron. When he found out I was attending law school he basically said, "Yeah, like 1/3-2/3 of your class will probably drop out."

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Re: Mandatory drop policy and attrition rates
catholicgirl wrote:I'll never forget a conversation I had with a young man who was trying to graduate from Akron. When he found out I was attending law school he basically said, "Yeah, like 1/3-2/3 of your class will probably drop out."
It seems shitty and terrible, but it probably is the best thing that will happen to the bottom third at schools like that.
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