A total of 129 entering freshmen in engineering and 85 persistors in engineering were administered the Adjective Checklist (ACL). Five scales on the ACL showed significant differences between freshmen and persistors and there were no significant differences between gender and black subgroups. The personality profiles of engineering freshmen and persistors in the study showed descriptions that were different from existing norm group descriptions of engineers and engineering students.
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