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Admissions and Financial Aid

Sample Applications for Admission
For reference only.  Cannot be used to apply.

Fall 2013 - Undergraduate  |  Graduate

Undergraduate Admissions

• Academic Preparation of Freshman Applicants, Admittees, and Matriculants Over Time
• Undergraduates by college and entry type including IUT's,, 1991 - present (Excel)
• Academic Preparation Analysis for new freshmen and their advisors
• Colorado Department of Higher Education annual reports on transfers to and transfers from Colorado two- and four-year schools and colleges, by school. Note: transfers from UCB, to UCB, are students entering UCB degree-seeking status, coming from UCB non-degree status.
• See Common Dataset, sections C and D
• Housing arrangements of summer/fall 2011 freshmen (PDF)
• Where freshman applicants to CU-Boulder enroll - Fall 2007
• Statewide and UCB freshmen applications by race-ethnicity (The Colorado pipeline) (3/06)
• Prior colleges or universities of undergraduate transfers entering CU-Boulder (2/07)
• Transfers from Colorado community colleges to CU-Boulder, Summary of findings
• Fact sheet on one cohort of students transferring to CU-Boulder (Word) (4/07)
• ACO's: Academic Preparation, Performance, and Other Outcomes of Students Offered Admission to Arts & Sciences After Applying to Other Colleges (Alternative College Option, ACO) (August 2006)
• Undergraduate Transfers Between CU-Boulder and Other Colorado Institutions,
  2004-05 and 2000-01
• Freshman Applicants Applying to Multiple CU Campuses 1991, 1996, and 2001
• Transfer student sources (fall 2008) and outcomes (entered fall 2002). (Word)
• College credits already earned by entering frosh, 1990, 1995, 2000-12 (Excel). Includes AP (Advanced Placement, with qualifying exam scores) and IB (International Baccalaureate) hours.
• Exchange students at CU-Boulder since fall 1993 (Word)
• A brief timeline of local and nationwide events that might affect student enrollment: 1988 to 2012, with link to list of earlier events (1946-1988) from Norlin Archives
• Graduation rates and other information on Pre-collegiate Development Program (PCDP) completers who enrolled at CU-Boulder, 9/2012 (Word)

Graduate Admissions and Financial Aid

• Applications, admits, and matrics, fall 08 and 09, by residency and college/level
• Fall 2010 graduate-school admits recorded on Campus Solutions who did not matriculate at UCB. December, 2010 (Excel)
• Graduate School, Apply Yourself applications for 2008-2010, by major, level, term, residency, and time point.
  Use to compare applications now to same point prior year(s) (Excel)
• Graduate financial aid profiles

• See Common Dataset, section H
• Aid profiles for degree-seeking undergraduates -- By residency and family financial capability
• Highlights, methods, tables for all:  FY12    FY11    FY10    FY09    FY08
• Detail tables by race/ethnicity, first generation status, and college:
  Resident -        FY12    FY11    FY10    FY09    FY08
  Non-Resident - FY12    FY11    FY10    FY09    FY08
• FY06-07, FY04-05 final
• Cumulative loan debt accrued by CU-Boulder...
• Bachelor's grads (last update 11/2012; links to prior reports)
• Master’s, doctoral, and law grads (Excel) (11/07)
• UCB students’ federal loan default rates
• FY 2010 3-year cohort || FY 2011 2-year cohort
• Table and graph showing UCB default rates over time (Excel) - shows official and preliminary rates for each cohort. Updated with official rates in Sept. or October (e.g., Sept 2011, official FY2009 rates released). Draft or preliminary rates issued only to schools are also shown; these are generally updated in Feb/March (e.g., Feb 2011, draft FY09 rates). Draft and official rates generally do differ.
• More information on default rates, with definitions and a searchable database, from the US Department of Education

Relevant to the CCHE admission standard

• Resident – non-resident mix rules at CU-Boulder (2013, PDF)
• Policy in a nutshell (Word). Revised 1/08
• CCHE admission standard policy (PDF)
• Summary matrix of current admission standard policy (Excel). Revised 9/07
• "Window" Admissions
(10/08)
• Relationship of admission index to student outcomes at CU-Boulder (Powerpoint) (6/06)
• Modeling the HEAR high school curricular requirements for CU-Boulder admits (Word) (5/07)
• Processing self-reported high school units (Word, 9/07 and 1/08, UMS process)
• CU meeting re HEAR and HS units 1/4/08 (Word)