Potential causes of failure for first-year College students

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Title: Potential causes of failure for first-year College students 

Introduction

THESIS: It is important indentify the potential cause of high rate of dropout among college freshmen. This easy captures and analyses the potential cause of high dropout rate among college freshmen.

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Differences in workloads and expectation between high school and college

College work too demanding

Most freshmen are not ready for the increased work load and fail to rise to the occasion

New unregulated freedom

The student fail to take responsibility of their new found freedom

Some student, due to freedom engage in self destructive activities

Lack of long term goals and objectives

The students are poor at goals setting

Being teenagers the students seek pleasure more than hard work

The students have no ability to forego immediate desires for future achievements

Conclusion

Many freshmen drop out because they are not able to handle the academic responsibly, they have no future goals that they strive to achieve and are further overwhelmed by the freedom they get in colleges

Potential causes of failure for first-year College students 

Every thousand of student join colleges as freshmen with great ambition and hope for success. Most of this student get to this point after fruitfully laboring through high school education and even earned scholarships. Unfortunately, not all manage to realize the dreams and ambitions. Thousand fall out college in their fresh man year. The number of those who drop out is alarming and has many stakeholders including educationist and parents worried. Perhaps, this worries could be best minimized through prompt identification of early sings that indicate a likelihood of a student dropping out the supporting the student to ensure that he or she does not fall by the way. To realize this, it is important indentify the potential cause of high rate of dropout among college freshmen. This easy captures and analyses the potential causes of high dropout rate among college freshmen.

Having emerged successful from high school, college freshmen get to their respective colleges expecting a repeat of their high school success. However, they soon realize that what they are experiencing is totally different from what they were used to while in high School. Simply put, the collage workload is more than what the students were used to while I high school (Daley, n.p.). Furthermore, the quality of required form academic tasks at the college is far greater than what these students were used to at high school. Most freshmen do not anticipate such enormous difference and they are usually found flat footed. In high school, assignments the assignments are subdivided small task and stipend spend very little time studying. In college everything changes. The students have to labor more that what they are used to and most of them still find their efforts insufficient. The students who fail to match the expectation have a difficult tome copying with their studies and most of the dropout.

Second, the inability to rise up to the occasion and assume responsibility exposes the freshmen to the danger of loosing focus and failing to complete their first year of college educations. It is one of the greatest challenge students, especially those who have never stayed away from parent supervision. The students suddenly find themselves with a lot of freedom and some end up getting derailed and adopting self destructive habits (Fisher, n.p).

Third, most freshmen come to college to study yet the have no idea of what to anticipate or what the want to achieve in the long run. The students are different from adults in terms of goal setting and understanding how to achieve them. Adult perfectly understand that hard work in necessary for one to realize success in collage. On the other hand, teenagers who make up the majority of college freshmen have strong urge for pleasure and little regard for hard work. Most of these students lack the maturity that adults have and therefore can not delay immediate gratification in order to realize future objectives. Furthermore, the students do not have long-term goals. It is important for student to have specific goals that they can work towards achieving. This may be good careers, respectable status among others. Although the student may work toward good grades, some no other objective than the good grades. On the other hand, those who get totally engrossed in fun, pleasured and immediate gratification find it the going difficult since the can not cope with the demanding academic environment and end up falling by the way.

The combined effect of these factors has cost many freshmen the hope and dreams. Many freshmen drop out because they are not able to handle the academic responsibly, they have no future goals that they strive to achieve and are further overwhelmed by the freedom they get in colleges. As a result the gradually loose focus and drop out of schools.

Work Cited

Fisher, Diann. “Why Students Drop Out of College” Web. December 7, 2013 <http://www.teachnologist.com/english1/cabinet/writing/samp_exp.htm>

Daley, Frank. “Why College Students Drop Out and What We Do about It” College Quarterly 13. 3 (2010). Web December 7, 2013 <http://www.collegequarterly.ca/2010-vol13-num03-summer/daley.html>