The typical student was between 14 and 18 years of age.
She had been, in other words, a fairly typical student.
These days, the difference between the cost of college and what the typical student can afford certainly has not diminished.
In 1980, the typical black student attended a school that was 36.2 percent white.
A typical student, she's a high school dropout, 25 years old with three children.
As of 2007 the typical student was an adult between 40 and 49 years old.
But in many respects, the veterans are not typical students.
Suffolk says its typical student is a woman in her late 20's.
We were, simply, neither more nor less serious than any two typical undergraduate students.
"But we basically found that the typical student spends no time working on a computer in a given week," she said.