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ECAP includes six retention and qualitative factors that impact and predict elements: a three-week summer in-residence engineer- student success beyond grades, financial need, ing bridge program to allow students to engage in social integration, and student satisfaction. This engineering/teambuilding activities, make friends, and longitudinal research study integrates demotransition to campus life; renewable scholarships, which graphic, academic, and financial data with data from an annual supplement other scholarships and grants to make each stu- survey asking engineering students about their satisfaction with dent's total award equal to the cost of attendance; yearly paid the college retention and degree programs, integration and summer co-op/internship, research, or study abroad opportuni- comfort level with people from diverse populations and with ties; mentoring by junior and senior ECAP students; a living- majority populations, alcohol and substance use, physical and learning community; and a Freshman Engineering Program mental health, religion, sexual orientation, and other factors designed to increase retention of all freshman students through rarely assessed.
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