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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

One of the main ingredients for success is college is - attendance. My students don't believe me when I tell them that, but it holds true. It's the chicken and the egg, though - do you do better in a class because you always attend, or do you always attend because you are the type of student who makes the effort necessary to succeed? !

Very very true. I started off my undergrad in school A and I would skip class to do other things happened more often that I like to admit. When I transferred to school B, they had a very strict attendance policy. If you miss more then 2 classes at trimester, your are supposed to be dropped from the class. Most teachers will work with you if you have a valid reason to miss more (for example, I had surgery last winter and there was a good chance I would have had to miss more then 2 Thursday classes but my professor said she would work with me) it has to be a good excuse. I had to re-take three classes that my grade didn't transfer over. While better teachers and smaller classes probably played a part in my better grades, the fact that I couldn't just skip class and had to actually be in class or risk getting dropped played a huge part in my grades being a lot better from the first time I took the classes.