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Several higher education schools realize the difficulty of the transition between high school and college, which is why many offer the availability of freshman success courses or seminars that help ease this “transition” and increase success rates among students. Howard and Jones (2000) state that “colleges and universities often consider offering a freshman course or seminar focused on content and experiences to facilitate the transition between secondary and post-secondary education.” The concept of this course, essentially, is that college freshman will be taught how to be successful, not only throughout the progression of their college career, but in life outside of college, as well. Howard and Jones (2000) reveal that they “hypothesized that all students who completed the seminar would report statistically significant growth … and that the extent of growth would be greater among students who entered with lower high school grade point averages.”
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