Though a previous study examined the data for vocational-technical students provided by the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, it did not exhaust the possibilities for evaluation of the data. The current study concentrated on three specific areas of analysis: (1) educational characteristics of students and selected univariate explorations; (2) multivariate explorations distinguishing vocational-technical students from others; and (3) student vocational and educational plans and ambitions. Vocational-technical students could be distinguished from academic and general students in terms of their academic ability, socioeconomic status, exposure to various teaching techniques, financial barriers to higher education, the incidence of remedial instruction, and participation in federal programs, such as Neighborhood Youth Corps and the Cooperative Vocational Education Program. Vocational students also differed from general students in terms of alienation, focus on the work world, channeling, sex, and race. Ambitions and plans of males and females in differing curriculum subgroups conform to the expected response patterns commensurate with their educational and social backgrounds. (BW)