The University of California announced recently that this year’s proportion of transfer students who were admitted from historically underrepresented groups jumped to 38 percent. Latino students were the largest ethnic group at just under 32 percent, followed by white students at 31 percent and Asian Americans at 27 percent.
African Americans represented 6 percent of the admitted transfer students, while American Indians and Pacific Islanders made up less than 1 percent of the admitted transfer students.
Almost all of the transfers were from the California Community Colleges.
“Our campuses have offered admission to an exceptionally talented group of students for the upcoming academic year,” said University of California (UC) President Janet Napolitano. “With the benefit of a UC education, these accomplished young people from different backgrounds, with diverse beliefs and aspirations, will make California and the world a better place.”
The university anticipates it has surpassed its goal of adding an additional 10,000 Californians by the 2018-19 academic year.
Preliminary admissions numbers show increases in offers to students from underrepresented groups and among California freshmen and transfers who would be the first in their families to graduate from a four-year college, with first-generation students comprising 46 percent of the total.
Among freshman applicants, Asian American students remained the largest ethnic group admitted at 36 percent, followed by Latinos at 33 percent, whites at 22 percent and African Americans at 5 percent. American Indians, Pacific Islanders and applicants who did not report a race or ethnicity made up the remainder of admitted students.
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