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...These students are often plagued with the fear that they are not really very bright," Nicholi said...
...decision to leave college," Nicholi added, "seldom, if ever, causes depression; on the contrary, the decision to leave, once made, brings considerable relief...
Some conclusions of Nicholi's study include...
According to Nicholi, most dropouts leave school because of depression, or "the discrepancy between what they thought they were before they came here and what they are beginning to feel they are when they've been here for a while...
...black students admitted to the 20 classes of 1950-1969, 76, or 28.7 per cent, had dropped out by the time of graduation. This figure is "significantly above" the general dropout rate of 24 per cent, Nicholi said, and "focusing merely on the American black dropouts, the percentage [30.3 per cent] is even more striking." (Only 16.7 per cent of African black students withdrew...