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The College Transition
Another transition, another crisis. College is when all the students who were the
brains in high school are thrown together. Like our graduate students, yesterday

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they were king of the hill, but today who are they?
Nowhere  is  the  anxiety  of  being  dethroned  more  palpable  than  in  pre-med
classes.  In  the  last  chapter,  I  mentioned  our  study  of  tense  but  hopeful
undergraduates taking their first college chemistry course. This is the course that
would  give  them—or  deny  them—entrée  to  the  pre-med  curriculum,  and  it’s
well known that students will go to almost any lengths to do well in this course.
At  the  beginning  of  the  semester,  we  measured  students’  mindsets,  and  then
we  followed  them  through  the  course,  watching  their  grades  and  asking  about
their  study  strategies.  Once  again  we  found  that  the  students  with  the  growth
mindset  earned  better  grades  in  the  course.  Even  when  they  did  poorly  on  a