1、 2021 COLLEGE HOPES&WORRIES SURVEY REPORT Contact:Jeanne Krier,Publicist for The Princeton Review, About the Survey The Princeton Review,one of the nations best-known education services companies,created the College Hopes&Worries Survey in 2003 to gather insights into the perspectives of college app

2、licants and their parents as they navigate the college application process.More than 190,000 people have participated in the survey which is now in its 18th year.About 80%of the respondents each year are students applying to colleges;20%are parents of applicants.The Princeton Review conducts the sur

3、vey annually in January/February and reports the findings in March when colleges are sending applicants offers of admission and financial aid.Respondents have primarily been users of The Princeton Reviews free website and other company services.Survey participants have completed either an online ver

4、sion of the survey or a paper version which is published in The Princeton Reviews annual Best Colleges guidebook.The survey has about 20 questions with multiple-choice answers.Many of the questions have been on the survey annually or for several years.Among them,the first question which invites a fi

5、ll-in-the-blank answer.It asks,What is your(your childs)dream college?What college would you most like to attend(or see your child attend)if chance of being accepted or cost were not an issue?The Princeton Review reports the 10 schools named as dream colleges by the highest number of student respond

6、ents and the 10 named as dream colleges by the highest number of parent respondents.Other questions ask respondents what matters most in their selections of colleges,their college cost estimates,their expectations for financial aid,their stress levels about application process,and more.The 2021 surv