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> It may seem counterintuitive, but the more selective the college you choose, the higher your likelihood of graduating. I hope they controlled for the admissi
by nshepperd 12y ago
> It may seem counterintuitive, but the more selective the college you choose, the higher your likelihood of graduating.
I hope they controlled for the admission criteria here. Otherwise, the obvious reason to see a correlation like this is that more selective colleges select students who are better at studying for tests (and therefore more likely to graduate).
- gwern 12y agoThere's also the signaling theory of higher education: the point of selective colleges is to show that you could get into them; the actual classes don't matter, so they might as well let everyone graduate and with honors (eg Harvard).