To: [student e-mail address]
From: "James Larimore" <rshores1@swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore needs your input!

Dear [First Name]:

The CIRP Freshman Survey is conducted at many colleges throughout the
country.  It asks students about high school activities, goals for
college, and plans for the future.  Your answers provide Swarthmore
College an important way to learn about our incoming students, and we
value your input.

To access the survey, please click on the following link:

[URL]

This is a unique link assigned to you.  For this reason, it is
important that you do not share it or forward this e-mail. This survey
takes approximately 25 minutes to complete, and should be completed in
one sitting, if possible.

You will have the opportunity at the end of the survey to decide how
much personally identifiable information you would like to share.
Your responses will be completely confidential and no information will
be attributed to you without your explicit permission. Responding to
the survey, and to any of the individual items on it, is completely
voluntary.

If you encounter any problems while taking the survey, please contact
Robin Shores, Swarthmore's Director of Institutional Research, at
rshores1@swarthmore.edu, or 610-690-6879.

The online version of this survey will be conducted by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and coordinated by the Higher
Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los
Angeles.  Swarthmore has provided your email address and other
information to these institutions for purposes of conducting the
survey.

Swarthmore cares deeply about your opinions and needs.  During your
time here, and even after you graduate, we will ask for your input
often through surveys, interviews, focus groups, and everyday
conversations.  Your feedback is an essential component to
strengthening Swarthmore, and we greatly appreciate your help.  Thank
you and we look forward to seeing you very soon.

Sincerely,

Jim Larimore
Dean of Students