Another Link to a Story About Study Habits

A short story in the Chronicle For Higher Education about incoming freshman not being prepared. Yet another indication that the PG year is a needed option for many students looking to go to college.

Obama sets ambitious educational goals

Here is an article talking about current enrollment and graduation numbers for the countries higher educational institutions, more fodder for why a Post Graduate year is key for young men.

Interesting articles

Here are a couple of posts that talk about community college as well as the difference between HS and community college. The PG year is all about that transition between HS and college, and the PG year enables students to start "fresh" when they hit college- not transferring in. In either case an interesting read.

A student produced video about PG from Bridgton Academy

College Graduation Rates for Men

The trends are continuing to not be favorable for young men as they try to find academic success in college. A recent statistic put the national graduation rate from a four year school at roughly 32% for young men, and that was allowing for up to six years to complete the degree!

With that said statics support that those who attended a PG year enjoyed a better than 70% graduation rate from a four year school school (again using the six year threshold to complete the degree).

An interesting starting point for discussion.

Good article on Understanding the Post Graduate

Here is a good piece that ran on Boarding School Review about Understanding the PG.

Another good article from ask.com dealing with the PG year.

Welcome to Why PG?

Do you know what a PG year is? Here at Why PG? we intend to discuss the PG year and explore the options that exist. We hope you will be a part of the dialogue.

Here are a few links:

A podcast on the PG year
A school that only deals with PG students
A great article about the PG year

Do you have resources we should share?