Four hundred and forty-one undergraduates at a large southeastern university completed a confidential anonymous 38-item questionnaire designed to assess student attitudes toward the elderly. The data revealed several significant gender differences including the age at which a person becomes "old" (men select a younger age), strength (men see less decline in strength), reaction time (women see less decline in reaction time) and the perception of the elderly as "dangerous" drivers (women see the elderly as less dangerous). Limitations of the data are suggested.