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What follows is a a series of selected facts and statistics based on information gathered by the DCC CSTEP Program between the years 1987 and 1998 (data pertaining to specific years will be noted).

• The percentage of students receiving CPA's between 0 and 1.9 fell from 33.8% to 7.4% (a decrease of 26.4%).
• Students receiving CPA's between 2.0 and 2.9 increased from 52.1% to 68.5% (an increase of 16.4%).
• Students receiving CPA's between 3.0 and 4.0 increased from 14.0% to 24.1% (an increase of 10.1%).

Between July 1987 and June 1997, three hundred and sixty-two (362) students were enrolled in the CSTEP program at Dutchess Community College. As of May 1998:

• One hundred and sixty-eight (168) students or 46.4% have graduated. The SUNY Automated Attrition and Retention Study of 1991 listed the graduation rate for all students at DCC as being 35.3%.
• Two hundred and sixty-nine (269) Black and Hispanic students have been enrolled in the program and one hundred and seventeen (117) or 43.5% have graduated. In the SUNY study mentioned above, the combined graduation rates for Black and Hispanic students at all two year SUNY colleges was 20% and the combined graduation rate for Black and Hispanic Students at DCC was 17%.

Of the 168 CSTEP graduates, fourteen (14) students graduated in 1998 and the whereabouts of fifty-five (55) students were not known after their graduation. A tracking project was done on the remaining ninety-nine (99) students:

• Thirty (30) students transferred to four year institutions (30.3%).
• Sixty-eight (68) students obtained employment (68.7%).
• Fifty-five (55) obtained employment in their field (55.6% of all CSTEP graduates whose whereabouts were known, 80.9% of those students employed after graduation).
• One graduate did not seek employment or a baccalaureate degree after graduation due to a medical disability.