Five question for you :
1.How old will you be on December 31 of this year?.
2.How many miles is this college from your parents home?.
3.Where did you live while you were growing up?.
4.Are you parents still living and are they still married to each other?.
5.How would you describle your parents views?.
The answers to the questions indicated that seventy eight percent of one freshmen were eighteen yeard old and and fourteen percent or older than nineteen.
More than half of the freshmen were studying in college far from their parents homes.Only fourty percent were within a distance of fifty miles from home.
The report indicates that most college students grown up in near cities.About one fifth of the freshmen reported that they had been brought up in small towns .Only seven percent came farm families.
Rather surprisingly,the report showed that comparatively few of the freshmen had parents who were divorced or separated .In most cases both parents were still alive and still married to each other.
Politically ,more than a third of the students described their views as liberal.Only sixteen percents considered themselves conservative,The largest group,however,were the forty six percent who described their politics as middle of the road.Very vew called their political views far left or far right.
When asked how they were paying for their educatin,almost a third of the freshmen said that they had part time jobe or were working during the vacation.For a few,scholarship were sources of support.However,fifty six percent of the students depended upon their parents to pay college bills.
For many of these families a college education was something new.Less than half of the freshmen’s fathers had ever attendedcollege themselves.
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