Tuesday, April 3, 2001

Media Contact:
Brad Hayward
(510) 987-9195
Brad.Hayward@ucop.edu

MEDIA ADVISORY
Subject: Fall 2001 freshman admissions

University of California campuses have offered freshman admission in fall 2001 to 51,599 high school students. Information about the admitted class is detailed in the attached tables, which also are available on the Web at the following address:
http://www.ucop.edu/ucophome/commserv/factsheets/fall2001adm.htm

These figures are preliminary. Additional students will be admitted as the university offers a place at one of its eight undergraduate campuses to those UC-eligible students who were not selected by the campuses to which they applied. By mid-April, all California students who have met UC's eligibility requirements will be offered admission somewhere in the UC system.

Students accepted by multiple campuses are included in the admissions figures for each campus in the attached tables. However, unless otherwise noted, the systemwide totals used below and in the tables are "unduplicated," meaning that each student is counted only once.

A brief summary of the data follows, focusing on admissions results for California high school students. Admissions data for the entire class, including out-of-state and international students, also are available. Nine out of every 10 admitted freshman students are California residents.

• UC HAS ADMITTED 10.4 PERCENT MORE CALIFORNIA FRESHMAN APPLICANTS THIS YEAR THAN LAST. The increase, from 41,790 California admits at this point in the fall 2000 admissions process to 46,130 for fall 2001, follows a 7.9 percent jump in UC applications this year from California students.
  
  
• ALL ETHNIC GROUPS SHOWED GAINS IN FRESHMAN ADMISSIONS. Systemwide, for California applicants, the number of admitted students increased 18.5 percent among Chicanos, 17.2 percent among Latinos, 13.6 percent among African Americans, 9.2 percent among white students, 8.7 percent among Asian Americans, 6.3 percent among American Indians, and 5.2 percent among students of other ethnicities. Admissions of students who declined to state their ethnicity increased 10.1 percent.
  
  
• THE NUMBER OF UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITY STUDENTS ADMITTED TO THE UC SYSTEM INCREASED 17 PERCENT, TO 8,580. These students - American Indians, African Americans, Chicanos and Latinos - represent 18.6 percent of the admitted class for fall 2001, compared to 17.6 percent last year. They represented 18.8 percent of the admitted class in 1997, the last year in which race was considered in the UC admissions process.
  
  
• MORE THAN 96 PERCENT OF APPLICANTS IN THE "ELIGIBILITY IN THE LOCAL CONTEXT" (ELC) PROGRAM HAVE BEEN ADMITTED BY AT LEAST ONE OF THE UC CAMPUSES TO WHICH THEY APPLIED.
  
  
• Of the 9,036 applicants identified as eligible for UC under the ELC program, 8,734 have been admitted to a campus. Remaining UC-eligible students will be offered admission at another UC campus, as described above.
• The ELC program, spearheaded by Gov. Gray Davis and now in its first year of implementation, grants UC eligibility to the top 4 percent of students in each of the state's high schools based on the students' grades in UC-required courses.
  
  
• PRELIMINARY UC ANALYSIS INDICATES THAT THE ELC PROGRAM HAD A SUBSTANTIAL IMPACT ON APPLICATIONS FOR FALL 2001 ADMISSION.
  
  
• Using projections, UC estimates that the ELC program increased applications 5.6 percent above the number expected from participating public high schools this year. Projected applications were calculated using historical application rates and growth in the high school population at each school. The 5.6 percent figure represents the increase in actual applications over projected applications at ELC-participating schools compared to non-ELC-participating schools.
• This 5.6 percent increase consists of an 11.3 percent increase above the projected number of applications from rural schools, 5.9 percent from urban schools, and 4.3 percent from suburban schools.
• Also, the ELC program appears to have increased applications 13.6 percent among underrepresented minorities at public high schools that participated in the program.

Students admitted to UC are required to sign a statement of intent to register by May 1. UC campuses will be undertaking extensive efforts to encourage admitted students to enroll this fall, emphasizing the affordability of a UC education along with the breadth and quality of the university's programs. Phone calls, letters, and local receptions for students and their families are among the activities planned by UC campuses to encourage admitted students to enroll.

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