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College Graduates’ Experiences and Values

Posted by Sarah Ziegler on February 1st, 2008 in Articles of Interest

The New York Times recently surveyed recent college graduates (about five years out, or less) to ask them about what mattered to them going into the college process, what matters now that they’ve graduated, and what they would do differently if they had to go through the process again. The results may be surprising, including how reputation or ranking mattered significantly less to students after graduation versus before.

Read the full article and see survey results at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/magazine/30poll-t.html. Also of note, the author, Jacques Steinberg, also wrote The Gatekeepers, a classic book examining selective college admissions

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