[et_pb_section][et_pb_row make_fullwidth="off" use_custom_width="off" width_unit="on" use_custom_gutter="off" padding_mobile="off" allow_player_pause="off" parallax="off" parallax_method="off" make_equal="off" padding_top_1="40" padding_bottom_1="20"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Title" background_layout="light" text_orientation="center" text_font_size="52" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid" custom_padding="10||10|" text_text_color="#666666"]<strong>College Transition</strong>[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Content" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid" custom_padding="20||20|"]<p>YTN’s research echoes that of UCLA and Ohio State; youth are less prepared for life on their own or college than at any previous point in time.   Even those with high academic achievement often struggle once on a college campus.  In our interviews with thousands of high school seniors and college freshmen YTN uncovered a number of important factors that lead to the 28% dropout rate of freshmen and the 70% of Christian youth that exit the faith when they leave home.</p>

<p>The more disturbing reality from YTN’s research was the fact that over half of the students encountered struggles academically, socially or financially that parents knew little or nothing about.  In our first set of interviews we found:</p>

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&bull; A young women who was sexually assaulted and contracted an STD in her first week on campus
&bull; A young man who awoke in the hospital having almost died from alcohol poisoning
&bull; A young women, a college junior, who was trapped in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend stemming back to her first week on campus
&bull; A young man who got himself in financial trouble and took two jobs which led to academic probation
&bull; A valedictorian who thought college would be easy and could not believe how much she was struggling academically
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