Saturday, January 29, 2011

First-Year College Students Stressed, but Optimistic, Survey Finds

Today's first-year students at U.S. colleges are reporting record-low levels of emotional health and more students say they feel overwhelmed even before entering college, according to the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) freshman survey, UCLA's annual survey of U.S. students entering four-year colleges and universities.

Only 51.9 percent of first-year students reported their emotional health was in 'the highest 10 percent' or 'above average' in 2010, which is 3.4 percent lower than the prior year, and the lowest ever since the CIRP study first asked the question in 1985 -- when 63.6 percent of students placed themselves in those categories. - ParentDish

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