 Go Figures A very good year
What sets Bates students apart from the rest? The following table may provide a few clues. In a national survey of incoming firstyears, members of the Class of 2008 at Bates ( garnet figure) and at 38 other very selective institutions (black figure) revealed their typical activities during the last year of high school.
| Activity |
Bates/Other Colleges |
| Came late to class |
62.5/65.9 |
| Was bored in class |
31.3/40.2 |
| Tutored another student |
62.0/66.7 |
| Studied with other students |
95.4/90.8 |
| Asked a teacher for advice after class |
40.3/34.0 |
| Was a guest in a teacher's home |
44.4/33.5 |
| Performed community service as part of a class |
56.9/51.3 |
| Voted in a student election |
31.7/28.4 |
| Worked on a local/state/national political campaign |
17.7/13.4 |
| Drank beer |
68.6/54.2 |
| Drank wine or liquor |
66.4/62.2 |
| Maintained a healthy diet |
56.1/51.1 |
| Stayed up all night |
63.0/69.8 |
Source: 2004 Freshman Survey, Cooperative Institutional Research Program, Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA. “Other colleges” are 38 non-sectarian four-year colleges that had an average composite SAT score of at least 1250 and met a minimum response rate for the survey. At Bates, 380 out of 467 first-time first-years (81%) responded. The list of activities has been abridged and reordered.
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