• jlow (he/him)@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    Not a native speaker here, I would have thought you “drop out” of college not “stop out” of it, is both sounding ok to native speakers or are they different things?

    • fracture [he/him] @beehaw.org
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      4 months ago

      you’re correct that the term normally used is “drop out”. i think this article may be using “stop out” to specifically refer to people who merely did not enroll in a new semester (vs. people who e.g. failed out, or were otherwise forcibly removed from the school), but i wasn’t able to conclude this 100% from my reading