Academic and career plans and experiences of students in their freshman and senior years were compared. The 280 students first entered the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY/B) in the fall semester of 1976 and graduated in the spring of 1980. Students were administered the College Student Perceptions Survey and a followup survey, which included questions concerning educational/career plans and experiences; family; employment; and personal, educational, intellectual, vocational, interpersonal, aesthetic, and civic development. Findings include the following: as incoming freshmen, these students had positive attitudes about attending college; preparing for a career was a very important reason for most of these students to attend college, as was personal and intellectual development; and slightly more than half as seniors intended to obtain masters' degrees, 10 percent more than had intended to do so as freshmen. Details of students' degree aspirations/accomplishments are included, along with 18 aspects of students' development. In addition to a narrative description of the results, numerous data tables are presented. (SW)