This document provides a quiz to assess a student's readiness for college. It presents scenarios about dorm life, class scheduling, time management, studying habits, resisting peer pressure, roommate conflicts, helping intoxicated peers, dealing with stress, and balancing social activities with academics. The student is prompted to select responses that indicate their preparedness to handle common challenges of college life. The document concludes by thanking the student for their participation and providing contact information for diversity program coordinators.

1. So You Think You Are Ready For
College?
Office of Diversity & Inclusion
Tai Cornute
Program Coordinator, Bell National Resource Center
Maria Sanchez
Program Coordinator, Community Outreach &
Engagement

2. When You think of living on a college
campus, you:
1. Have already picked your 25% 25% 25% 25%
dorm-room furniture.
2. Are a little nervous about
sharing a room with a
stranger, but still excited.
3. Text your mom asking her if
she’ll still do your laundry
every week. 1 2 3 4
4. Are so excited about having
the freedom to “hook up”
whenever I want!

3. Since you might not receive your first choice
of classes in your first semester at college,
you plan to:
25% 25% 25% 25%
1. Sit outside the professor’s
office until he/she enrolls
you in the class you want
2. Pick classes randomly
3. Meet with a college
counselor and select
alternative classes
1 2 3 4
4. Drop-out, move to
California and try to land
my own reality TV show

4. To stay organized you:
1. Have developed
25% 25% 25% 25%
extraordinary mental note-
taking skills and don’t forget
anything.
2. Write out your weekly and
monthly schedules (including
school, work and club events)
on your calendar.
1 2 3 4
3. Keep your notes and
assignments in a color-coded
system.
4. Write all my notes on my

5. You usually study:
1. One or two hours 25% 25% 25% 25%
each day.
2. When you absolutely
have to.
3. When are you not
studying?
4. What does study 1 2 3 4
mean?

6. The night before a huge exam, your
friends invite you to a party. You:
1. Resist peer pressure and 25% 25% 25% 25%
decline because you have
to study.
2. Haven’t really studied, but
don’t want to miss out so
you go to the party.
3. Study for a couple of
hours, then go to the party 1 2 3 4
with plans to leave a little
early.
4. Decide you have been

7. Scenario 1
You and your roommate have
been getting along great! But as
of recently, they have been
having overnight guests even
though they know that makes you
uncomfortable. To top it off your
roommate and their guests have
been eating all of your snacks

8. Scenario 2
You are at a party and you see a
girl from your hall who obviously
has had too much to drink and
she is hanging out with a guy
who you know is not her
boyfriend and none of her friends
are around. What would you do?

9. Scenario 3
Oh My! My financial aid has not
posted to my account, I FAILED
my 1st quiz, I am homesick, and I
am so stressed out that I have
not slept in 2 days! I am not sure
I made the right decision about
going to college. What do you
do?

10. Scenario 4
You have a mid-term exam
tomorrow and you need to get an
“A” on it. You were planning on
going to the library to study tonight,
but while you were at dinner, you
heard of this HUGE party that is
happening tonight. Your friends are
pressuring you to skip studying and
go to the party with them. What do
you do?

11. THANK YOU!
Contact:
Tai A. Cornute
cornute.2@osu.edu
Maria Sanchez
sanchez.789@osu.edu