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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withdrawn from college before the end of senior year.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