At three of the ten colleges where comparable data were available for 1951 Scholars and Comparison students (Morehouse did not enter the program until 1952, and Shimer did not establish Comparison groups) there were proportionately fewer failures among the Scholars than among the Comparisons, and at two others the proportion was about the same. The picture among the 1952 Scholars and Comparisons was substantially similar.

Six of the colleges compared the failure rate among the Scholars and Comparison students with that among their classmates as a whole. As the following table indicates, the proportion of Scholar failures was lower than that of their classmates at four of the six colleges.

Proportionately fewer Scholars than Comparison students withdrew from college for reasons other than failure—to enter military service, to get married, because of illness or financial difficulty, or because of miscellaneous or unknown reasons.