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<p>All state universities in California have a large intake of junior transfers from California community colleges.</p>
<p>^^^^</p>
<p>That was my first thought, too, but the stats don’t support that…</p>
<p>…frosh…soph…jr… …sr
Full-Time…3,260…2,396…3,681…6,597
Part-Time…215…180…647…1,730</p>
<p>The big number is at the senior year…which is because too many kids are 5th/6th year seniors. The transfer number at junior year looks to be about 1300 kids.</p>
<p>There is about a 850 student decrease from frosh to soph. Don’t know if that’s because of drop out…or because too many frosh from the year before don’t make soph status at the end of frosh year. I suspect the latter is the case…which ends up contributing to the high senior numbers.</p>
<p>It is hard to make definite conclusions about those numbers without knowing how “freshman”, “sophomore”, “junior”, and “senior” are defined.</p>
<p>Each of the following can give different conclusions:</p>
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<li>Defined by credits completed, including AP/IB credit (0-44 = freshman, 45-89 = sophomore, 90-134 = junior, 135+ = senior).</li>
<li>Defined by credits completed, not including AP/IB credit.</li>
<li>Defined by calendar years since first entry (0-0.9 = freshman, 1-1.9 = sophomore, 2-2.9 = junior, 3+ = senior, 0-0.9 since transfer = junior, 1+ since transfer = senior).</li>
<li>Defined by quarters completed since first entry (0-2 = freshman, 3-5 = sophomore, 6-8 = junior, 9+ = senior, 0-2 since transfer = junior, 3+ since transfer = senior).</li>
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<p>When colleges publish breakdowns of freshman through senior class they are using total hours completed which includes any AP/IB credits; in other words if senior class status is those with 135+ quarter hours then any with that total completed including AP/IB credit is deemed a senior. Having a much larger senior class is very common at universities as many do not graduate in four years and that is particlarly true of schools that have a large engineering class for which coops are very common (where the student works a couple of quarters or more while in college and thus necessarliy graduates late) and the total hours needed to graduate are more than other majors and many just take longer to complete as a result.</p>
<p>AP/IB credit can also inflate senior counts if it is classified by credits including AP/IB credit.</p>
<p>For example, instead of spending 3 quarters each as a freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior, a student may spend 2 quarters as a freshman, 3 each as a sophomore and junior, and 4 quarters as a senior.</p>
<p>do you think i could get in with a 3.4 gpa?</p>