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Download full textShanley, Mary Kay; Johnston, Julia – Journal of College Admission, 2008
There is this little secret college-bound and first-year college students outwardly deny: They are scared sick about going off to college. In the authors' interviews with 175 college students throughout the United States for "Survival Secrets of College Students" (Barron's, 2007) students talked--sometimes painfully--about what they wished they…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Student Attitudes, College Freshmen, Interviews
