<p>These have been posted or referred to in threads, but from the continued chancing threads, I thought a 'named' thread might be helpful.</p>
<p>Note that these are students who actually turned up in the fall, and the gpa may include senior year (unclear about that.) I'm pretty sure it is gpa as that campus calculates gpa (which seems to slightly vary.) These are lower than the gpas etc of 'accepted' students because some of the accepted students with the highest stats end up going elsewhere. I am going to put one of these in each campus forum.</p>
<p>too late to change the post. I believe it is how many were admitted of the applicants in a ‘band of stats’ who applied, not necessarily who showed up. (I.e. I am not sure if ‘admitted’ means were accepted or who actually turned up in the fall.)</p>
<p>admitted means those who got the thick envelope, not those who enrolled. Look, for example, just at the line that says GPA 4.0 and above.<br>
86.4% (14,274/16,530) </p>
<p>There are only about 20,000 undergrads total at UCSB, so this can’t mean that 14K frosh with a 4.0 or better enrolled.</p>
<p>I agree. I had looked at these more carefully before the holidays and got the parameters mixed up - but when I looked them over and wanted to change it, the posts were no longer editable. </p>
<p>It does give a clearer picture of, overall, what chance someone with particular stats would have of being accepted than some though. Granted, this is 2013 data and not broken down by major, which can matter for some majors.</p>
<p>In case you’re referring to the one I posted…</p>
<p>I found it by googling common data sets for particular schools. Although I didn’t come across another with a table like UCSB’s, I did find a lot of interesting info. PM me if you’d like.</p>
<p>I thought the information on parent education in socalmom23’s link for UCSB was intriguing. About 35% of kids are the first generation to attend any college, but an equal number are from families where one parent has an advanced degree beyond 4 years of college. I wondered if all the UC’s have a similar pattern. Also surprised that Biology is so dominant at ucsb.</p>
<p>Biology appears dominant because this is a survey of majors listed by incoming freshmen. At the start of college, anecdotally it seems like every fourth person you meet says they are premed. The most obvious major for someone to pick as premed is biology. And I think that’s all this means. Not many of them are going to stay the course.</p>