College Entrance Examination Board Scholastic Aptitude Test decile scores for 1106 university freshmen compared (annually for 7 years) with student achievement, attrition, and graduation showed positive correlation for some academic majors and correlations only at the extremes for other majors. Two hundred, or 36% of all drop-outs, were apparently capable of succeeding in college, and, except for a relatively few outstanding students, achievement was found to represent, in effect, a pass-fail system. After 7 years 539 or 48.7% of the entering group were graduated, 555 or 50.2% were lost by attrition, and 12 or 1.1% were eligible to continue. A follow-up questionnaire showed that 59 or 5.3% of the entering group were graduated from other 4-year colleges and a projection technique indicated that a total of 160 or 28.8% of all drop-outs may have been graduated elsewhere, making an estimated total of 699 or 63.1% of the original class who may have received a bachelor's degree in 7 years. This study cautions against basing academic prediction upon a simplistic use of the total SAT score and supports the independent use of the verbal and mathematical scores in relation to various college majors. (Author)