Abstract
To examine the effects of an impoverished background on the college adjustment and performance of low‐income freshman males, 36 entering freshmen from the lower income groups at a state university and a junior college were matched on American College Test scores and college of attendance with 36 control freshman males. A battery of tests of the personal characteristics important to college adjustment and success and of the level of aspiration was given both groups at the beginning of the first semester in college and at the end of this semester. The low‐income group showed personal characteristics similar to those which have appeared in studies of college dropouts. One semester of college accentuated these characteristics. Nonetheless, the low‐income group had as good or better college performance as measured by grade‐point average at the end of one semester and possessed levels of aspiration equal to those of the control group.
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