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Admissions, Financial Aid, and Enrollment Projections

Enrollment of new and all students

• Enrollment Projections
  
• Press releases and news articles on new freshmen and overall enrollment - for fall '09 (below) || fall '08

September 17, on census enrollment: CU-Boulder Enrollment Reaches All-Time High With Growth in Minority Students, Graduate Enrollment

August 18 update for fall 2009. Registrations on track with May 2009 projections.

Freshmen apps for fall: Feb 2009 (2-22-09): Apps down from record levels in '08, near '07 levels. Given introduction of required essays plus recession, we're pleased. Boulder Daily Camera.
 

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 (6/08)
• See Common Dataset, sections C and D
• 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)

Relevant to the CCHE admission standard

• Policy in a nutshell (Word). Revised 1/08
• 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)

Financial Aid

• See Common Dataset, section H
• Aid profiles for degree-seeking undergraduates -- By residency and family financial capability
• Highlights, methods, tables for all:  FY08 |  FY09
• Detail tables by race/ethnicity, first generation status, and college:
  Resident - FY08 |  FY09
  Non-Resident - FY08 |  FY09
• FY06-07,  FY04-05 final
• Cumulative loan debt accrued by CU-Boulder...
• Bachelor's grads (last update 10/09; links to prior reports)
• Master’s, doctoral, and law grads (Excel) (11/07)
• UCB students’ FY 2007 final default rates
• Table and graph showing UCB default rates over time, through FY 2007 final rates (Excel)
• More information on default rates, including rates by state and by institution type, from the US Department of Education

 

Press releases for fall 2008

Census fall 2008: September 2008 (9-18-08):
http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/f22e8459be17ca013e804841b2bcdd6d.html
Title: CU-Boulder Freshman Class is Largest in CU-Boulder History; Overall Enrollment Up 2.5 Percent with Significant Minority Enrollment Gains.
    Supplemental information to fall 2008 press release.

Pre-census estimates fall 2008: June 2008 (6-3-08):
http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/b0968669f833cd5ceb01e735268b9263.html
Possible Record CU-Boulder Freshman Class Coming For Fall - “Preliminary numbers point to the class being in excess of 5,700 students, most likely around 5,750.”

Census fall 2007: September 2007 (9-20-07):
http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/360.html 
Title: Fall CU-Boulder Entering Class Among Largest And Best Qualified Ever; Overall Enrollment Size Remains Steady

Move-in fall 2007: August 2007 (8-17-08):
www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/304.html
All on volunteers helping at move-in, social activities. Nothing on expected enrollment.

Pre-census estimates fall 2007: August 2007 (8-12-07):
http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2007/290.html
Wrote in May, revised 2-3 times before eventual release in August.
Title: CU-Boulder Paid Deposits Show Large Freshman Class Could Enroll In Fall