A recent SACS review at the author's institution prompted an assessment of the school's developmental mathematics program. The author needed to examine the effectiveness of the developmental mathematics courses in preparing students for their first college level mathematics course. Rather than just examine success rates in developmental mathematics courses, the author chose to compare the success rates of developmental mathematics students to the success rates of nondevelopmental students in their first college level mathematics courses. Specifically, the author tracked developmental students from their last prerequisite developmental mathematics course into their first college level mathematics course. The developmental cohort consisted of only those students who had "successfully" completed their developmental coursework "before" enrolling in their first college level mathematics course. The author reports the results of the comparison of the success rates of developmental math students to the success rates of nondevelopmental students in their first college level math courses. (Contains 3 tables.)