Dear Vito,
According to the Department of Education, "Some 2.5 million students
received high school diplomas in the 50 states and the District of
Columbia during the 2000?01 school year and subsequent summer (table
6). Another 42,452 received other high school completion credentials
(e.g., certificates of attendance). This total does not include data
for New Hampshire or Wisconsin, which could not report this
information. These high school completers only made up 1.7 percent of
all high school completers (diploma recipients and other high school
completers, not including high school equivalency recipients).
(SOURCE: The Education Statistics Quarterly, Vol. 5 No. 2 2003,
<http://nces.ed.gov/programs/quarterly/5_2/q3_4_t2.asp#Table-6>
As for college freshmen, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 4.4
million students were enrolled in the first year of college, according
to the October 2002 census. (SOURCE: "Table 10. Attendance Status of
College Students 15 Years Old and Over, by Age, Sex, Year and Type of
College, Race, and Hispanic Origin: October 2002", U.S. census Bureau,
<http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school/cps2002.html>).
Other sources (for example, "COLLEGE COMPLETION: Additional Efforts
Could Help" <http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03568.pdf>) indicate that
only 1.4 million are first time freshmen (first time enrolled).
Given that many universities and colleges encourage freshmen to live
in campus, it wouldn?t be surprising to learn that in ?Among the
approximately 590,000 freshmen [?] live in dormitories (SOURCE:
Marianne Lebedinskaya, ?Campus battles meningitis case?, BU Pipe Dream
< http://www.bupipedream.com/120503/news/n2.htm> ).
As for dormitory number, ?[?]Students seem to like the halogen lamps
because of the country's 2 million dormitories, residing students have
about 600,000 to 1 million halogen torchieres (SOURCE: Adam Wolf,
?Energy Conservation in Residence Halls at Emory University: A Closer
Look at the Turman Residential Center? <
http://www.environment.emory.edu/ecology/wolf.shtml>).
In total, 2.064 million people lived, according to the 2000 census, in
dormitories (See: Census 2000 PHC-T-26. Population in Group Quarters
by Type, Sex and Age, for the United States: 1990 and 2000, U.S.
Census Bureau, < http://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/phc-t26/tab01.pdf>).
You could see male/female and age division there.
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