Profile of Fall 2002 Transfer Class

• Fall 2001 Data
• Fall 2002 Data
• Fall 2003 Data - not available
• Fall 2004 Data
• Fall 2005 Data
• Fall 2006 Data
• Fall 2007 Data
• Fall 2008 Data

• Applicants / Admitted / Enrolled
• Academic and Personal Achievement
• Distribution by Diversity

Applicants / Admitted / Enrolled

• A record number of 6,655 applicants applied for fall 2002 admission, of whom 84% are currently California Community College students

• 4,432 applicants were offered admission, a 5.6% increase over fall 2001. Of these, 86% are attending a California Community College

• 1,350 transfer students are expected to enroll this fall, UCI's largest transfer class in campus history

Academic and Personal Achievement

• 74% of admitted students report a grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or higher

• 94% of admitted students will complete 60 or more semester units prior to UCI enrollment

• Students admitted to the following majors have met all prerequisite courses required for admission to the major: Applied Ecology, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Economics, all Engineering majors, Information and Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics. Preference for admission in all other majors was given to California Community College students who will have completed 60 or more transferable units by the time of entry to UCI and who have met minimum UC eligibility

• The largest proportion of entering transfer students will start UCI as Social Science majors (32%), followed by Humanities (20%), Social Ecology (16%), Information and Computer Science (10%), Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Arts (6%), and Physical Sciences (4%)

Distribution by Diversity

• Various ethnicities are represented in the entering transfer students as follows:
  African-American 2.2%; Mexican-American 8.7%; Spanish-American 3.5%; American Indian 0.6%; Asian-American 45.2%; White/Caucasian 30.7%; Other 2.2%; and Decline to State 6.9%