Report finds students not prepared for college
By Christopher Makarsky | October 10, 2001Recommendations from high school guidance counselors to take harder classes may be pretty sound advice after all. A new report, "Raising Our Sights: No High School Senior Left Behind," released by the National Commission on the High School Senior Year, concluded that many students are ill-prepared for the rigors of a typical college curriculum. The report states that although 70 percent of students go on to higher education, only half of those students in four-year institutions actually graduate. "There is an overall lack of preparedness for college in most students," said Fran Bradford, communications and government relations coordinator for the Virginia State Council of Higher Education. Through the data reflects a nationwide trend of students being unprepared, University officials said they believe most students here are ready for the challenges of higher education. "Since about 1978, evidence in the form of AP test scores, actual performance in required entry-level courses, and progression rates from first to second-year status has suggested that most of our students are prepared for work above the customary level of college freshman courses," University President John T.
