The
entire report in Acrobat PDF format.
The
entire report in Acrobat PDF format.
The fall of 1994 marked the 29th annual report of national normative data on the characteristics of students attending colleges and universities as first-time, full-time freshpersons. The nationwide survey is a project of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), a continuing longitudinal study of the American higher education system sponsored by the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Over 237,777 freshpersons at 461 colleges and universities nationwide who participated in the ACE survey represent the national norms. The national norms cited in this report are based upon a group of highly selective four-year universities and colleges. Selectivity is determined on the basis of freshperson class average SAT scores; four-year colleges with an average of 1100 or higher on the SAT are placed in the highly selective group.
The main objective of the CIRP is to assess the effects of college on students. The data is hope to provide a normative profile of freshpersons for individuals engaged in policy studies and analysis, human resource planning, campus facilities administration, educational research, and student guidance and counseling.
This report describes the results for UCSC's 1994 fall freshpersons and compares them with students entering other selective institutions. The results are based upon 1,124 students, 63% of the entering class. The survey identified differences in several areas, including demographics, high school accomplishments and activities, academic goals, reasons for attending college, intended major, life and career goals, and political and social attitudes.