confidential, and were urged to be free and frank in their comments.

One of the questions they were asked was: "Apart from any deficiencies in your preparation, did you encounter any difficulties in adjusting to the academic or social aspects of college life?"

The responses were as follows:

These responses tend to support the belief of the colleges that the restrictive measures applied to the "pioneer" group of 1951 Scholars added to their adjustment problems, and that removal of these restrictions made things easier for succeeding Scholar groups.

The difficulty most frequently cited by the Scholars was that they had felt "bashful," "shy," "immature," or had "taken time to make friends." Nearly a third of them volunteered that this had been the case. Roughly a quarter of them mentioned specific trouble with "dating." Another 25 per cent cited a difficulty that was unique to the Scholars: they felt that they were considered by regular students as members of an "out group."

The Comparison students reported that they too had suffered from "shyness," "immaturity," "slowness to make friends," and difficulty with dating. However, the proportion citing these difficulties was markedly lower than for the Scholars. In general, the Comparison students reported somewhat less trouble of a strictly social and emotional nature and somewhat more trouble with study habits and with budgeting their time as between social and academic activities.

A more detailed examination of the Scholars' social and emotional problems may logically begin with the only important