College Rankings - Highest Freshman Retention Rate

Is there something in the water? The following colleges and universities have to be doing something special to keep such a high number of first-year students returning for another year.

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1
Yale University
New Haven, CT
99.0 %
2
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
98.0 %
3
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
98.0 %
4
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
98.0 %
5
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME
98.0 %
6
Brown University
Providence, RI
98.0 %
7
Columbia University
New York, NY
98.0 %
8
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
98.0 %
9
MIT
Cambridge, MA
98.0 %
10
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
98.0 %
11
Pomona College
Claremont, CA
97.0 %
12
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
97.0 %
13
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
97.0 %
14
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, CA
97.0 %
15
Babson College
Wellesley, MA
97.0 %
16
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
97.0 %
17
North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
97.0 %
18
University of Notre Dame
South Bend, IN
97.0 %
19
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
97.0 %
20
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
97.0 %
21
Washington University in St. Louis
Saint Louis, MO
97.0 %
22
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
97.0 %
23
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
96.0 %
24
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
96.0 %
25
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
96.0 %