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In upper teen Jewish life, the non-college group tends to have a sense of marginality.

`` People automatically assume that I'm in college '', a nineteen-year-old machinist observed irritably.

However, among the girls, there are some morale-enhancing compensations for not going to college.

The Jewish working girl almost invariably works in an office -- in contradistinction to gentile factory workers -- and, buttressed by a respectable income, she is likely to dress better and live more expansively than the college student.

She is even prone to regard the college girl as immature.