College Freshmen Survey Shows High Degree of Achievement and Ambition
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Digital Vision/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) — Judging by a new survey, the typical college freshman in the U.S. is pretty serious about higher education.
More than 150,000 freshmen from 227 colleges were polled for the “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2014” which revealed that the typical first-year student had generally earned As and Bs in high school while also taking four years of English, three years of math, and two years of a foreign language.
Meanwhile, about 77 percent of freshmen went to public schools while most also had parents who either had a college degree or spent some time in college.
As for why they’re in college, 86 percent said it was to get a better job, 82 percent want to learn more about their interests, 77 percent are there to train for a specific career and 73 percent want to make more money.
The survey was conducted by the University of California Los Angeles’ Higher Education Research Institute’s Cooperative Institutional Research Program.
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