Teri, I'll be interested in hearing about others' experience with Noel-Levitz also. We used their College Student Inventory at my school a long time ago. We discontinued it because it only gave us a snapshot of the student at a moment in time – usually at Orientation when they didn't know what pressures they would face. The drop-out proneness scale simply indicated those people who tend to challenge authority [eg faculty], but did little to identify those people who would struggle in the classroom or who would have transition issues. The pressures in a student’s life are constantly changing and we wanted a more dynamic tool.