Seventy percent of high school graduates go straight to college, up from 63 percent in 2000. But, one in five don’t make it to sophomore year and more than a third do not finish a degree in six years, writes Hechinger’s Jon Marcus. “In 2016, the overall completion rate of full-time, first-time students was 49.1 percent at four-year institutions and 38.6 percent at two-year institutions,” reports Elevating College Completion by the American Enterprise Institute and Third Way.