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According to Nicholi, about 24 per cent of each class for the past 20 years has dropped out; about 90 per cent of these come back at some time, but less than half actually get Harvard degrees...
...Emotional illness far outweighs every other cause for leaving college," Nicholi said. "More than 43 per cent of the sample left for psychiatric reasons...
...psychiatric dropout," Nicholi said, was defined as a student who consulted a psychiatrist one or more times before leaving college and who was given a specific psychiatric diagnosis...
...data demonstrate clearly that the psychiatric dropouts are more intelligent as a group than those leaving college for other than psychiatric reasons," Nicholi said. "The relationship of high intelligence to psychiatric disorder among the dropouts was further demonstrated within each major field of study...
Dropouts with a diagnosis of psychoses, Nicholi said, were over represented in social sciences, literature, history, government and economics. Dropouts with a diagnosis of a neurotic disorder were over represented in mathe-matics, the humanities and the physical sciences...