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Discuss “Survey studies 40 years of trends in first-years”

Carnegie Mellon students are richer and more qualified than ever before, according to a new survey. They are also more ambitious, applying to more schools, and are less likely to have applied to Carnegie Mellon as their first choice.

These are only some of the conclusions about higher education gleaned from “American Freshmen: Forty-Year Trends 1966–2006,” the results of a survey administered to each entering class for the past 40 years at hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide.

The study, released April 9, was part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), run by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. It aimed to document the characteristics and values of college first-years on both national and...

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Comment 1. koowo
Jul 01, 2007 at 08:13 AM

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