Profile of Fall 2002 Freshman Class

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A record number of 30,626 applicants applied for fall 2002 admission, a 4.8% increase over fall 2001
17,334 applicants were offered admission, a 0.7% increase over fall 2001
UCI expects to enroll a freshman class of 3,950 new students

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 540 and 650 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 largest proportion of entering freshmen will start UCI as undecided/undeclared freshmen (23%), followed by Biological Sciences (22%), Engineering (13%), Social Science (9%), Humanities (9%), Information and Computer Science (8%), Social Ecology (7%), Arts (5%), and Physical Sciences (5%)
Various ethnicities are represented in the enrolling freshmen class as follows:
African-American 2.2%; Mexican-American 8.1%; Spanish-American 2.6%; American Indian 0.4%; Asian-American 53.4%; White/Caucasian 25.1%; Other 1.7%; and Decline to State 6.5%