Resilience, Peer Pressure, & College

Laughing when you are upset and make a mistake is a bad idea.

It is okay to include mistakes you have made on your college application.

Students that want to be popular are more influenced by their peers in a negative way.

We can control everything that happens in our lives.

Colleges want students that have resilience.

We can boost our resilience by...

Students who don't care about popularity are the least affected by peer pressure.

Resilient people often overreact

Students in classes with higher-performing peers are less likely to sign up for SAT prep classes.

Colleges want students to be perfect.

Students sitting with lower-performing peers were less likely to sign up for SAT prep classes if the sign up is public.