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Show Utah's high school graduates 1 prove highly college oriented I Utah's high school graduates continue to be highly college oriented, according to an annual an-nual study released today by the State Board of Education's Division of Auxiliary Services. The study, based on questionnaires ques-tionnaires returned by 17,644 seniors .. who graduated from Utah high schools in the spring of 1969, shows that 69.45 percent per-cent to attend college after high school graduation. Other intentions listed were, work, 11.58 percent; vocational school, 7.86 percent; business school, 3.91 percent; other schools, 2.74 percent; armed forces, 2.48 percent, and all others, 1.98 percent. Although percentages are slightly different, this year's graduates listed almost the same intentions as those covered cov-ered in the 1968 study. More than 2.500 students said they intended to continue their education at post-high school institutions other than academic colleges or universities. universi-ties. More than half of these, 1,388, listed vocational or technical tech-nical schools as their choice; 690 said they would attend business schools and 483 said they planned to attend other vocational-type schools, such as beauty and barber colleges. Of the 1.388 who listed vocational voca-tional schools, 56.6 percent said they planned to attend Utah Technical College at Salt Lake; 31.3 percent listed UTC at Provo and almost 10 percent said they planned to attend vocational vo-cational schools outside Utah. Almost half the graduates listing business schools as their choice said they planned to attend Stevens Henager College. Col-lege. Most of the rest, 43.5 percent said they planned to attend LDS Business College. Among the 2,044 graduates who said they planned to take jobs immediately, these occupational occu-pational choices were listed: clerical, 30.5 percent; personal service (waitresses, etc.) 19.9; skilled trade, 13.8 percent, and farming, forestry and transportation, transpor-tation, 82 percent. The 1969 study shows that graduates still depend on their families for help with college expenses and that their family members still exert more influence in-fluence over their lives than do other persons. When asked to list sources they expect to use in financing their college educations, the college-bound majority responded respon-ded as follows: parents and relatives, 29 percent; summer employment, 21.3 percent; scholarship 19.2 percent; own savings, 13.9 percent, and employment em-ployment while in school, 8.7 percent. When asked what effect their high school experience had on determining future plans, gaduates responded in this manner: School was the greatest factor, 15.7 percent; quite important, 50.7 percent; had little effect, 25.2 percent; and had no influence, 6.2 percent. per-cent. When asked to identify persons per-sons who influenced them, the graduates responded: parents, 46.8 percent; school personnel, 23 percent; friends, 16.4 percent; per-cent; brothers or sisters, 6 percent; per-cent; religious leaders, 2.2 percent per-cent and community leaders, 1.7 percent. If the parent and brother and sister categories are added together, nearly 53 percent attribute most influence influ-ence to their families. |