Profile of Fall 2006 Freshman Class

• Applicants / Admitted / Enrolled
• Range of Test Scores and GPA
• Distribution by Diversity and Geographical Area

Applicants / Admitted / Enrolled

• 38,426 applicants applied for fall 2006 admission

   

• 23,167 applicants were offered admission, a 11.3% increase from fall 2005

   

• UC Irvine expects to enroll a freshman class of approximately 4,800 new students

   

Range of Test Scores and GPA

• An average high school grade point average (GPA) of 3.88 (note: UC Irvine uses a maximum of 8 honors grade points in determining the GPA)

   

• The middle 50% of the admitted class has an SAT Verbal score between 550 and 660 and a Mathematics score between 580 and 700

   

• The average number of "a-g " courses (full-year) completed in grades 9 - 12 is 23

   

• 96% of all students completed at least four years of mathematics

   

• The typical student offered admission completed five and one-half (full-year) academic courses in the senior year

   

Distribution by Diversity and Geographical Area

• The largest number of freshmen students will be enrolling from Los Angeles County, followed by Orange County, the Bay Area counties, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, and San Diego and Imperial Counties

   

• The largest proportion of entering freshmen will start UC Irvine as Undecided/Undeclared freshmen (20.6%) and Biological Sciences (22%), followed by Social Science (17.4%), Engineering (11.7%), Humanities (8.8%), Physical Sciences (6.1%), Arts (5%), Social Ecology (5%), Information and Computer Sciences (3%), and Health Sciences (.2%).

   

• Various ethnicities are represented in the enrolling freshmen class as follows: African-American 2.4%; Mexican-American 9.1%; Spanish-American 3.4%; American Indian <1%; Asian-American 56.6%; Caucasian 23.4%; Other 1.7%; and Decline to State 3.9%.