Factors affecting the success of college freshmen

Abstract

The subjects were 172 freshmen at Centre College. The Otis Higher Examination was used. There is a tendency to correlation between intelligence score and academic average. Sons of salesmen and skilled artisans are high, sons of farmers and business men rather low; the order in both traits by expected majors, from high to low, is teaching, engineering, business, general, medicine. Non-athletes are higher than athletes; Kentucky boys are lowest in intelligence, but are near the average of non-Kentucky boys in academic average. Younger students are rather consistently better than older ones in both traits. The author suggests that intelligence and purpose are the chief factors contributing to college success. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)