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The academic success, according to the perception of Redondo (1997),
requires a high degree of adhesion to the targets, means, and values of the
educational institutions, which probably not all of the students s how up.
Although those who unconditionally accept the project of life which the
institutions offers are not missing, it is possible a sector reject it, in
another, may be more substantial, only identifies with itself in a
circunstational way. To accept, for instance, the promise of social
promotion and use the school as a mean to reach it, but do not identify
themselves with the culture and scholastic values, so that they adopt a
comfort attitude toward the institution which consist in going through it
with just the necessary effort. Rather they find themselves with it in their
cultural way yet they do not believe or do not need to believe in their
promises, because they have desired to resign to what is being offer, or they
have not assured any way through their social condition and then, they try
to get away from their requirements.
A good academic performance is mainly associated with the improvement of
the personal and social adjustment, as the investigations showed. It’s
normal that a university student who recently access to the campus does not
have a real academic plan. Taking into a count in the present time,
population who access to university is younger than the one before the
secondary programs were reduced from three to two years. This fact can be
proved through the result of the study where the population` age range is
higher in students from 16 to 20 years with a total of 32 female and 61
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