Wednesday, January 25, 2006

USA Today - Higher Percentage of Fatalities in College Freshman

An article in USA Today, January 25, 2006 of special interest to parents.

A USA TODAY analysis of 620 deaths of four-year college and university students since Jan. 1, 2000, finds that freshmen are uniquely vulnerable. They account for more than one-third of undergraduate deaths in the study, although they are only 24% of the undergraduates at those institutions, according to National Center for Education Statistics data analyzed by the American Council on Education for USA TODAY.

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