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By academic preparation at entry, and student race/ethnicity
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Two-thirds – 66% -- of new full-time fall freshmen entering CU-Boulder 1997 through 1999 graduated from
CU-Boulder within six years of entry. The 20% of entering students with the strongest academic
preparation graduate at a 78% rate; the 5% with the weakest preparation graduate at just under 50%.
Graduation rates are also related to student race/ethnicity.
For this analysis academic preparation is measured with high school performance – rank and GPA – and
performance on national standardized tests, the SAT and the ACT. HS performance and test scores are
combined in the CCHE admission index. See
http://highered.colorado.gov/Publications/Policies/Current/i-partf-index.pdf
for definitions of values of the index. Examples:
Rank 90th percentile with ACT 30 or 1310-1340: Index = 131
GPA 3.0 with ACT 20 or SAT 930-960: 94
GPA 3.0 with ACT 25 or SAT 1120-50: 105
GPA 3.5 with ACT 21 or SAT 970-1000: 105
Six-year graduation rates for students of color and whites are shown in the graph and table below by
band of the CCHE admission index for students entering 1997 through 1999 combined. The stronger the
preparation, the higher the graduation rate, for both whites and students of color. For students with
indices of 113 and over, graduation rates are virtually identical for whites and students of color.
In groups with lower academic preparation, student of color graduation rates lag those of whites by 5
to 10 percentage points. We suspect that this pattern reflects different distributions within index
bands of academic preparation strength and factors such as financial need.
| |
Ethnicity/Citizenship |
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| |
White |
Afr Amer |
Natv Amer |
Asian Amer |
Hispanic/Latino |
All stu of color |
All |
| Percent graduating in six years (six-year graduation rate) |
| Below 93 |
55% |
49% |
44% |
41% |
43% |
44% |
48% |
| 93-102 |
61% |
48% |
43% |
49% |
52% |
50% |
59% |
| 103-107 |
64% |
61% |
58% |
66% |
55% |
60% |
64% |
| 108-112 |
67% |
46% |
33% |
66% |
66% |
63% |
67% |
| 113-120 |
68% |
76% |
46% |
67% |
67% |
67% |
68% |
| 121+ |
78% |
84% |
58% |
77% |
81% |
78% |
78% |
| All |
68% |
54% |
48% |
62% |
58% |
59% |
66% |
| Number entering, 1997, 1998, and 1999 combined |
| Below 93 |
143 |
86 |
9 |
66 |
96 |
257 |
400 |
| 93-102 |
2,255 |
64 |
28 |
179 |
214 |
485 |
2,740 |
| 103-107 |
2,173 |
33 |
24 |
128 |
131 |
316 |
2,489 |
| 108-112 |
2,103 |
26 |
12 |
136 |
96 |
270 |
2,373 |
| 113-120 |
2,096 |
17 |
13 |
106 |
103 |
239 |
2,335 |
| 121+ |
2,372 |
19 |
12 |
155 |
64 |
250 |
2,622 |
| All |
11,182 |
249 |
98 |
773 |
711 |
1,831 |
13,013 |
Students with missing academic credentials are not listed;
total N omitted 54 over the three entering years.
White includes unknown and international
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