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Originally Posted by YoungEconomist
If MIT failed 75% of those taking the prelims, but somewhere like Minnesota only failed 10%, are you really telling me you'd still go to MIT. I think attrition is a very reasonable thing to be concerned about, and will likely play a role in the offers I accept. Some schools fail about 50% of those that take the prelims, and I would consider that a pretty risky proposition, and I'd definitely be willing to drop down in the rankings a bit if I could go somewhere where it was only 20%.
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I think you're right. I read a post on another forum from a 3rd or 4th year grad student (at Wisconsin maybe) who said he would have gone somewhere else if he had known about the attrition rate.