Estimated Unduplicated Freshman Admissions Excluding Applicants Who Declined to State Ethnicity

	APPLICANTS				ADMITS				ADMIT RATE
Table 2 University of California Stage One* : Estimated Unduplicated Freshman Admissions Fall 1997 and Fall 1998 Comparison Computations exclude those students who decline to state their ethnic background
	1998	%	1997	%	1998	%	1997	%	1998	1997
American Indian	461	0.9%	405	0.8%	318	0.8%	336	0.8%	69%	83%
African American	2,302	4.4%	2,219	4.1%	1,243	3.3%	1,509	3.7%	54%	68%
Chicano	5,670	10.9%	5,142	9.6%	3,969	10.4%	4,165	10.2%	70%	81%
Latino	1,948	3.7%	2,000	3.7%	1,325	3.5%	1,520	3.7%	68%	76%
*Sub-Total of Underpresented Students*	*10,381*	*19.9%*	*9,766*	*18.3%*	*6,855*	*18%*	*7,530*	*18.5%*	*66%*	*77.1%*
Asian American	18,983	36.4%	18,975	35.5%	14,427	37.9%	14,421	35.4%	76%	76%
White	21,769	41.8%	23,263	43.5%	16,109	42.3%	17,680	43.5%	74%	76%
Other	965	1.9%	1,480	2.8%	656	1.7%	1,051	2.6%	68%	71%
*Sub-Total*	*52,098*	*100%*	*53,484*	*100%*	*38,047*	*100%*	*40,682*	*100%*	*68%*	*71%*
Decline to State	8,814		2,693		6,346		2,181		72%	81%
*Total*	*60,912*		*56,177*		*44,393*		*42,863*		*73%*	*76.%*
* In progress admissions inventory as of April 2, 1998. Additional eligible students to be admitted mid-April 1998. Note: Data for Fall 1997 are from the Management Report of 4/2/97; data for Fall 1998 are from the Management Report of 3/30/98. Admit counts for all freshmen are based on percent of applicants admitted. Data are in-progress estimates and are within 5 percentage points of those presented by the campuses. SOURCE: UC Office of the President, Student Academic Services, OA&SA, Apr 1998 (f98/preadm)

Last Updated on 4/2/98
By Terry L. Colvin