PC Word snobs like make me sick. Why do they believe that "leave early" and "dropout" are that much different. The stigma is from the association with not getting a good education, not with the word dropout. If everyone were to switch to this new classification, don't you think that "leave early" is going to start having a new stigma. Maybe it's just that Canada doen't want as many dropouts in it's country? Maybe they look down on dropouts? I'm a early grad school leaver, and I look down on Bill Gates, but not because he's a early college leaver.