In the years since, the attrition rate for plebes has been reduced to 20 percent.
The attrition rate for West Point plebes approached 40 percent in the 1990s.
The company's attrition rate for people it wished would stay has been constant for seven years, he said.
With that period to reflect, the attrition rate for new entrants has dropped to 15 percent, Father Dunne said.
According to statistics of the National Association of Independent Schools for the 1997-98 academic year the median attrition rate for boarding students was 10.6percentt.
In addition, Mr. Hamayoun expressed concern about the continued high attrition rate for the Afghan National Army from desertions, casualties and resignations.
Estimating the exact likelihood of these outcomes is challenging, but the attrition rate for moderate Republicans has been high in recent cycles, especially in New England.
The problem with bottom-up counts, like the FBI collection that begins with police records, is a severe attrition rate for data as it climbs toward the national light, as deaths go unreported or unrelayed from one level to another.
But success comes at a price: students and their families must abide by rigid academic and behavioral expectations, and the attrition rate for KIPP's students, in some schools, can be startlingly high.
The stampede has slowed to a trot the attrition rate for "top producers", brokers who bring in $1m or more, hit a ten-year low in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Denise Gurer, co-chairwoman of the association's Committee on Women in Computing and a technologist at the 3Com Corporation in Santa Clara, Calif., said that there was a substantial attrition rate for women as they moved through the computer science career pipeline, from college to work.
