Profile of Fall 2003 Freshman Class

• Fall 2001 Data
• Fall 2002 Data
• Fall 2003 Data
• Fall 2004 Data
• Fall 2005 Data
• Fall 2006 Data
• Fall 2007 Data
• Fall 2008 Data

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

Applicants / Admitted / Enrolled

• A record number of 34,385 applicants applied for fall 2003 admission, a 1.2% increase over fall 2002

• 18,498 applicants were offered admission, a 2.8% increase over fall 2002

• UCI expects to enroll a freshman class of 4,100 new students

Range of Test Scores and GPA

• An average high school grade point average (GPA) of 3.86 (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 570 and 660 and a Mathematics score between 580 and 690

• The average number of "a-g " 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

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 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%