Colleges with the Highest Retention Rates

When people go to these colleges, they never want to leave! The number is the percentage of freshmen returning for their sophomore year.

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  1. Curtis Institute of Music: 100% (Philadelphia, PA) (4 scholarships available)
  2. Yale University: 99% (New Haven, CT) (16 scholarships available)
  3. Amherst College: 98% (Amherst, MA) (6 scholarships available)
  4. Bowdoin College: 98% (Brunswick, ME) (7 scholarships available)
  5. Columbia University: 98% (New York, NY) (17 scholarships available)
  6. Dartmouth College: 98% (Hanover, NH) (4 scholarships available)
  7. Harvard University: 98% (Cambridge, MA) (8 scholarships available)
  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 98% (Cambridge, MA) (6 scholarships available)
  9. Pomona College: 98% (Claremont, CA) (15 scholarships available)
  10. Princeton University: 98% (Princeton, NJ) (10 scholarships available)
  11. Stanford University: 98% (Stanford, CA) (16 scholarships available)
  12. University of Chicago: 98% (Chicago, IL) (12 scholarships available)
  13. University of Notre Dame: 98% (Notre Dame, IN) (3 scholarships available)
  14. University of Pennsylvania: 98% (Philadelphia, PA) (8 scholarships available)
  15. Brown University: 97% (Providence, RI) (8 scholarships available)
  16. California Institute of Technology: 97% (Pasadena, CA) (14 scholarships available)
  17. Georgetown University: 97% (Washington, DC) (21 scholarships available)
  18. Johns Hopkins University: 97% (Baltimore, MD) (14 scholarships available)
  19. Northwestern University: 97% (Evanston, IL) (15 scholarships available)
  20. Rice University: 97% (Houston, TX) (15 scholarships available)
  21. San Francisco Conservatory of Music: 97% (San Francisco, CA) (12 scholarships available)
  22. University of California -- Los Angeles: 97% (Los Angeles, CA) (20 scholarships available)
  23. University of North Carolina -- Chapel Hill: 97% (Chapel Hill, NC) (6 scholarships available)
  24. University of Virginia: 97% (Charlottesville, VA) (5 scholarships available)
  25. Washington University in St. Louis: 97% (St. Louis, MO) (27 scholarships available)
  26. Williams College: 97% (Williamstown, MA) (5 scholarships available)
  27. Barnard College: 96% (New York, NY) (13 scholarships available)
  28. Brandeis University: 96% (Waltham, MA) (15 scholarships available)
  29. Bryn Mawr College: 96% (Bryn Mawr, PA) (4 scholarships available)
  30. Bucknell University: 96% (Lewisburg, PA) (12 scholarships available)
  31. Carleton College: 96% (Northfield, MN) (9 scholarships available)
  32. College of the Holy Cross: 96% (Worcester, MA) (12 scholarships available)
  33. Cornell University: 96% (Ithaca, NY) (14 scholarships available)
  34. Duke University: 96% (Durham, NC) (10 scholarships available)
  35. Haverford College: 96% (Haverford, PA) (6 scholarships available)
  36. Swarthmore College: 96% (Swarthmore, PA) (9 scholarships available)
  37. United States Naval Academy: 96% (Annapolis, MD) (8 scholarships available)
  38. University of California -- Berkeley: 96% (Berkeley, CA) (17 scholarships available)
  39. University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor: 96% (Ann Arbor, MI) (14 scholarships available)
  40. University of Southern California: 96% (Los Angeles, CA) (27 scholarships available)
  41. Vanderbilt University: 96% (Nashville, TN) (4 scholarships available)
  42. Babson College: 95% (Babson Park, MA) (16 scholarships available)
  43. Bates College: 95% (Lewiston, ME) (6 scholarships available)
  44. Beacon College: 95% (Leesburg, FL) (11 scholarships available)
  45. Bentley College: 95% (Waltham, MA) (9 scholarships available)
  46. Boston College: 95% (Chestnut Hill, MA) (9 scholarships available)
  47. Claremont McKenna College: 95% (Claremont, CA) (14 scholarships available)
  48. College of New Jersey: 95% (Ewing, NJ) (5 scholarships available)
  49. College of William and Mary: 95% (Williamsburg, VA) (5 scholarships available)
  50. Davidson College: 95% (Davidson, NC) (17 scholarships available)
  51. Middlebury College: 95% (Middlebury, VT) (3 scholarships available)
  52. Rhode Island School of Design: 95% (Providence, RI) (7 scholarships available)
  53. Tufts University: 95% (Medford, MA) (4 scholarships available)
  54. Vassar College: 95% (Poughkeepsie, NY) (11 scholarships available)
  55. Villanova University: 95% (Villanova, PA) (14 scholarships available)
  56. Wellesley College: 95% (Wellesley, MA) (29 scholarships available)
  57. Wesleyan University: 95% (Middletown, CT) (13 scholarships available)

Source: Wintergreen Orchard House.

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