Profile of Fall 2007 Freshman Class

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

Applicants / Admitted / Enrolled

• 39,956 applicants applied for fall 2007 admission

   

• 22,220 applicants were offered admission, a 4.1% decrease from fall 2006

   

• UC Irvine expects to enroll a freshman class of approximately 4,900 new students

   

Range of Test Scores and GPA

• An average high school grade point average (GPA) of 3.92 (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 600 and 640 and a Mathematics score between 640 and 700

   

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

   

• 96.4% of all students completed at least four years of mathematics

   

• The typical student offered admission completed six (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 Biological Sciences (26.3%), and than Social Science (19.4%), followed by Undecided/Undeclared (18.2%), Engineering (11.3%), Humanities (6.7%), Physical Sciences (6.0%), Arts (4.0%), Social Ecology (3.5%), Information and Computer Sciences (2.7%), and Health Sciences (1.8%).

   

• Various ethnicities are represented in the enrolling freshmen class as follows: African-American 2.3%; Mexican-American 11.1%; Spanish-American 3.7%; American Indian <1%; Asian-American 56.8%; Caucasian 20.6%; Other 1.7%; and Decline to State 3.5%.