The Valpo Core Reader
 

Document Type

Cause and Effect Essay

Publication Date

1991

Excerpt

Freshmen entering Valparaiso University meet many new pressures and challenges. Over the years, these trials may change slightly in context, but they remain of a nature that all new students must face. Confronting peer pressure, competing for grades, quelling parental concerns, and maintaining scores similar to those earned in high school: these are some of the trepidations one encounters when attending an institution where the majority of freshmen graduated from their high schools in the top 10% of their class. Yet, first-year college students can find solace in the fact that they all share similar challenges together. Except me.

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