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This telephone interview covered the current states of the College drop outs in Ursinus college. Most of the kids who dropped out of this college were because of money, work load but mainly cause of the money to pay for college. Sinnea douglas also gives an insight of how she adapt to the college life and how she took specific steps to stay on track, and making good choices in staying in college. She also explained how hard the college life is and how planning ahead helped her with adapting to the college life and environment. 

2. Mezzacappa, Dale. "Philadelphia." n. page. Web. 15 Feb. 2013. <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=c675ada3-a66c-449f-8285-778e0fcfc7a8%40sessionmgr15&vid=1&hid=28&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ofm&AN=504444545

This source about how the amount of college graduation rates increasing form 2001 to 2009. It said that it increased from 48 percent of people graduation college to 56 percent of people graduating from college. It also gives a brief history of how long kids have been dropping out of college and explained how the amount of drop outs decreased as the years went on. It also explained what steps were taken throughout the years to decrease the amount of drop outs and increase the amount of kids who graduate from college. This article showed what steps were taken throughout the years.     

3. State, University. n. page. Web. 15 Feb. 2013. <http://www.stateuniversity.com/blog/permalink/7-Reasons-Why-Students-Drop-Out-Of-College.html>.

This source is about the seven most reasons why kids who go do college drop out. One of things that they talked about and is most common is money. Money is one of the most common factor that causes most kids to drop out of college. Another factor that plays a factor in the amount of kids who drop out is the work load. Most kids who go to college can’t handle the work load an never found a way to adapt to the college life. Causing most students to drop out and making the number of drop outs increase.        

4. Chronicle, analysis. "Who graduates from college, who doesn’t, and why it matters.." n. page. Web. 19 Feb. 2013. <http://collegecompletion.chronicle.com>.

This site has talks about the amount of kids who actually graduated and from what college. The amount of people who graduated from each university is different. The colleges that were for profit had more graduates compared to private, community, and public colleges. This site bassically states that what ever college that a kid attends will determine if their chances of graduating from college.  

5. Beth Marklein, Mary. "Low college graduation rates raise concerns." n. page. Web. 19 Feb. 2013. <http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20130125/NEWS05/301250050/Low-college-graduation-rates-raise-concerns>.

This article explains that money plays a dominate role in college. If kids who attend college and have no way of paying for college tuition will most likely be the ones who drop out of college. This article stated that 83.4 percent of people are expect to graduate from college but yet only 43 percent of that 83.4 percent of kids will actually graduate college. This article also talks about how the current economic conditions could also play a factor in why kids are dropping out of college. This also explains how 9.5 percent of the kids who try to attend college are not being offered financial aid.