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A study examined the relationship between precollege attributes and subsequent development in college students. The 175 participants had at least three commonalities: they were students who entered as freshmen and matriculated at the same college in the fall of 1980, they were under the age of 22 at the beginning of their freshman year, and they agreed to participate in the study for three years. Three years after matriculation, participants rated themselves on the vocational, intellectual, and psychosocial domains under study. They constituted two groups: developmental actualizers—those who rated themselves as above average on all three developmental domains—and developmentally stalled—those who rated themselves as at or below average on all three domains. Results indicate the important role played by intrinsic precollege variables such as aptitude, motivation, aspirations, and commitment in the process of development. External variables did not differentiate the developmental actualizers from the developmentally stalled.