Three classes of Swarthmore freshmen were given a level-of-aspiration questionnaire designed to give an independent measure of the hope of success (HS) and fear of failure (FF) continuum. The relations between this measure and total n Achievement and various n Achievement subscores were investigated. The findings were: "(a) Students at the extremes of the continuum have lower n Achievement scores than students in the middle of the continuum, (b) In terms of positive subscores (goal imagery) on the n Achievement measure, the extremes have higher scores than subjects in the middle of the HS-FF continuum, (c) In terms of negative subscores (deprivation imagery) the middle group tends to score more highly in the extremes.".