Is Bootcamp dropout rate really that high?

It's generally high because it's the easiest way to juice the outcomes. If people who are weaker leave, the best people graduate and placement rates are only based on people who graduate. Bloomtech has a 50% or so graduation rate and a 90% placement rate of people who graduate. TripleTen doesn't publish a placement rate but has a 87% placement rate. Codesmith is one of the stronger programs that has like a 95% graduation rate and 80% placement rate. It's important to factor both in because your odds of getting a job from day one are the odds of graduation times the placement rate and not the placement rate alone!