The average college freshman has about a 53% chance of graduating from school. Yeah, almost half of them flunk out.
The ones that flunk out? They're the ones that can't balance being on their own with academic rigor. They're going to college to be acculturated, politicized, get drunk, get high, get laid, get hooked on video games, etc.
Not all schools have the same graduation rate - but it's not hard to find colleges with graduation rates of under 30-40%.
First, those graduation rates should be publicly posted and part of the annual reports on best colleges.
Second, most students should NOT go to college right out of high school. They should take two years off, working a 'dead end' job, living on their own, so they can get used to doing their laundry, cooking their own meals, and can experiment with sex, pot and booze on their own dime, rather than while racking up $8k/semester (or more - much more!) in student loans. Do it for two years, figure out what makes you happy, find out if there's a way to earn a living at something you enjoy, or at least don't detest. Then go to a Junior College for your first two years (where it's cheaper...) get your scut-work classes out of the way, and transfer to a four year school to finish off.
Explain on your resume that you decided to segregate your dumb teenage drinking years from your professional certification years, and I guarantee that that'll score points on your interview process.
Colleges have every right to look at what those kids put on their Facebook pages, compare them to information that drop outs put on their pages, and work from there. This isn't spying. This is using information that's put out there in public to try and raise the graduation rates at the university by keeping those who want to party hard out of school and not disrupting the students who are there - to learn.
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