How college students think they are more special than EVER: Study reveals rocketing sense of entitlement on U.S. campuses
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 15:30 EST, 5 January 2013 | UPDATED: 06:50 EST, 6 January 2013
Books aside, if you asked a college freshman today who the Greatest Generation is, they might respond by pointing in a mirror.
Young people’s unprecedented level of self-infatuation was revealed in a new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has been asking students to rate themselves compared to their peers since 1966.
Roughly 9 million young people have taken the survey over the last 47 years.
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Hmmm… I thought the schools beat all of the pride and US exceptionalism out of this generation.
Good to know that all of their efforts to minimize achievers have not succeeded.
Anon, you are mistaken. Academia has been able to convince woeful underachievers are all that and more. Trophies for everybody!!
#1 joke is on us. These exceptional kids will be looking for loan forgiveness when they are done.
Ah… individually they are great, but individual achievment is bad and as a country we are evil…
takes a lot of skill to impart that lesson.
Well done NJEA
Well done NEA
We will have the most self assured generation of Starbucks Baristas the world has ever seen. This is a great day for America; a great day for the world.