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FRESHMEN ARE COMING HOME FROM COLLEGE FOR THE
HOLIDAYS…WITH BUYER’S REMORSE
Unscientific polling conducted at 50
universities across the country shows that an
alarming 56% of students surveyed are unhappy
with their college choice.
NEW YORK (December 9, 2008) – According to a
poll conducted by CollegeClickTV.com—an online
resource designed to help high school students
and their parents make informed decisions about
choosing the right school, using resources vital
to the college search process—there’s a frown on
the face of 56% of this year’s freshman class as
they return home for the holiday break.
Of the 56% of freshmen surveyed who were
disappointed with their college choice, 11% said
that it was not what they expected. While some
seemingly trivial issues, like the weather (2%)
and missing their boyfriend or girlfriend (3%),
were cited as a part of the problem, 19% of
respondents said they spent too much time out at
night and did not get enough sleep. Some results
were surprising: 6% of those polled mentioned
having difficulty managing their time, with 2%
even chiming in that they had “no nagging
parent” telling them what to do and when to do
it.
While colleges across the country wrestle with
the age-old issue of keeping their freshmen
happy, they may want to consider that colleges
with a winning football team had significantly
happier students. A whopping 81% of those who
reported liking their school attended a college
with a winning football team, and their top
three reasons for being cheerful were
“camaraderie” (#1), “tailgating” (#2) and “pep
rallies” (#3).
Glenn Pere, the Founder and CEO of
CollegeClickTV.com, says, “Considering the
expense of education today, I think it’s a real
shame that every student in college isn’t at a
place they love. But the results of this survey
are not a huge surprise to me, given that the
only resources many have available to them are a
onetime cross-country campus tour and catalogues
about what the different schools offer.” Pere
notes that he has more friends than not who say,
“College was the best four years of my life,”
and he hopes that future generations of
graduates will be able to say that, too. He
adds, “To address this need for information, we
created CollegeClickTV.com as a destination that
would cost nothing for college-bound students
and their parents, and we certainly hope that
when we conduct this research again next year,
our site will have played some small role in
reversing those statistics.”
Another interesting poll result was that 28% of
freshmen surveyed said that their peers at
college were not what they were expecting. And
while a sobering 68% of respondents did say that
finances were an issue in choosing the college
or university they attended, with 42% currently
working to make money, what the future may bring
to the 40% who have a 529 college savings plan
is yet to be seen.
CollegeClickTV.com President Eric Yaverbaum
states that “While we know that in today’s
financial climate, money plays a bigger role in
the decision-making process, it does seem that
many of the freshmen we interviewed for this
survey did not do their research before choosing
where they went to school.” Yaverbaum, who has
just begun the college search process with his
teenage daughter, notes, “I don’t think my
daughter and I ever had a more important
homework assignment. We definitely are going to
do our research! And I couldn’t be more thrilled
to be able to use the CollegeClickTV.com site to
help her choose where she is going to spend her
next four years.”
For more information on CollegeClickTV.com,
please visit: www.collegeclicktv.com
About Videople and CollegeClickTV.com:
Videople, LLC, is a media development and
holding company specializing in robust web
properties. Bringing together people via
exclusive entertaining and informative video,
Videople creates online communities for highly
desired, targeted demographic segments.
CollegeClickTV.com helps high school juniors and
seniors make informed college decisions, while
keeping stress levels low, by providing
entertainment and social networking features.
Peer-to-peer video content features interviews
with students, local merchants, faculty, and
staff from more than 200 colleges and
universities across the country, offering
thoughts on all topics relating to college life
(www.collegeclicktv.com). |
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