re: NCAA Graduation Success Rates

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Do you really want a real, non-troll answer? Places like Georgia, Texas, Florida, Michigan and others have high admission standards among publics

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A couple of issues there.
1. NCAA mandates academic achievement as a requirement of eligibility. Every D 1 school has a massive support system for its athletes to meet the requirement for academic progress. Athletes that put in minimum effort are going to make it through even if the system drags them to graduation.

2. Schools with “Hope” grants are going to see higher failure rates than non “Hope” states because “Hope” put a ton of kids in schools that don’t belong in school as a money maker for the school system. “Hope” changed schools mindset from being an exclusive agent designed to encourage success to more open system with standards built around enticing “Hope” money, not academic success.
3. People hold up the number of applicants not admitted and pretend that is a basis of superiority or exclusivity. In most cases it’s not. Not to pick on UGA but the last class they admitted was 6,200 people. That’s one of the largest freshman classes in Georgia. It’s a 1,000 plus more than were admitted to most folks back up school. UGA has attainable entry standards, a high number of students, “HOPE” and is a name folk’s recognition in a very small number of 4 year institutions in a state with almost 10,000,000 people so a ton of kids apply there. And if you make it through your 1st year at UGA your odds of graduating are in the 90% range.