Bridging from High School to College: Findings from the 2004 CIRP Freshman Survey

At UCLA, the Higher Education Research Institute studies college students. For more than 30 years, our Cooperative Institutional Research Program’s annual survey of entering college students — The Freshman Survey — has gathered data on students’ high school experiences, attitudes, beliefs, and values. Recently, the Freshman Survey began incorporating a variable on service as part of a course, offering insights into patterns of participation and outcomes of service-learning. The national Freshman Survey data presented here reflect the responses of nearly 293,000 students entering college in the fall of 2004. The data are weighted to reflect the population of all first-time, full-time freshmen at four-year institutions. (pages 54-58)