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They Went to College Early







to have adjusted better—although not a great deal better—than the Scholars.

At the End of Senior Year

At the end of their senior year, the 1951 and 1952 Scholars and Comparison students were rated once again by their faculties. The results were as follows:

RATING OF ADJUSTMENT AT END OF SENIOR YEAR
1951 GROUP 1952 GROUP
RATINGS SCHOLARS COMPARISONS SCHOLARS COMPARISONS
EXCELLENT 23.6% 26.4% 20.6% 20.5%
GOOD 46.5 43.7 46.8 59.3
MODERATELY GOOD 22.8 23.4 25.8 16.7
POOR 5.1 4.6 6.0 2.7
VERY POOR 2.0 2.0 .7 .8


As the table indicates, the proportion of Scholars and Comparisons rated at the top of the scale in this final appraisal was higher than had been the case at the end of freshman year. Most of the difference is undoubtedly accounted for by the fact that many of the Scholars and Comparison students who had made a poor initial adjustment had withdrawn from college before the end of senior year. Once again the results showed that in the judgment of the faculties, the Comparison students as a group had made a slightly better adjustment than the Scholars, but that well over 90 per cent of both groups had adjusted moderately well or better.

It should be noted that there were variations among Scholars on different campuses, and among individual Scholars on the same campus. Scholars on some campuses, often for special reasons, had more difficult adjustment problems than other students. Yale, for example, reported that its 1951 Scholars had more difficulties than their classmates in adjustment to college in general and to Yale in particular. Yale noted that this was partly