Profile of Fall 2001 Freshman Class

Applicants / Admitted / Enrolled

• A record number of 29,205 applicants applied for fall 2001 admission, an 18% increase over fall 2000

• 17,264 applicants were offered admission, a 22% increase over fall 2000

• UCI expects to enroll a freshman class of 4,100 new students - the largest freshman class in UCI history

• An average high school grade point average (GPA) of 3.83 (note: UCI 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 530 and 640 and a Mathematics score between 580 and 700

• The average number of "a-f " courses (full-year) completed in grades 9 - 12 is 22

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

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

• 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 Eligibility in the Local Context program has contributed the representation of 53 additional California high schools not represented in UCI's fall 2000 class

• The largest proportion of entering freshmen will start UCI as undecided/undeclared freshmen (22%), followed by Biological Sciences (18%), Social Sciences (16%), Engineering (13%), Information and Computer Sciences (9%), and Arts, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Ecology - approximately 5% each

• Various ethnicities are represented in the enrolling freshmen class as follows:
  African-American 2.9%; Mexican-American 9.2%; Spanish-American 3.0%; American Indian 0.5%; Asian-American 51.1%; White/Caucasian 24.8%; Other 2.0%; and Decline to State 6.4%