The top 10 undergraduate majors for fall 2001 were arts and sciences (open option), psychology, EPOB (environmental, population, and organismic biology), English, business (undetermined), kinesiology, MCDB (molecular, cellular, and developmental biology), environmental studies, political science, and communication.

For a complete list of majors available at CU-Boulder, check out the catalog at www.colorado.edu/catalog.

How and when do I apply to CU-Boulder?

Admission decisions are based on a number of different factors, including but not limited to:

• grade point average
• standardized test scores
• minimum academic preparation standards (MAPS)
• the rigor of courses taken
• trend in grades
• the personal essay
• letters of recommendation
• personal achievement, special talents, and extracurricular activities
• ethnic and geographic diversity

Since CU-Boulder has more qualified applicants each year than spaces, those with the strongest records are admitted.

For more information, go to the prospective student web site at www.colorado.edu/prospective.

All new freshmen are required to live on campus for a full academic year (not including summer session), provided space is available. If you are married or live with your parents in the Boulder area, you may petition to live off-campus.Once you have been admitted and have confirmed your intent to enroll at CU-Boulder, you will receive information about the housing application process and a brochure describing our 22 university residence halls, dining facilities, and special residential academic programs (RAPS). You can find information on the Department of Housing web site at www-housing.colorado.edu. Only a limited number of new transfer and graduate students can be accommodated in the residence halls. Therefore, transfer and graduate students need to find accommodations off campus, and will find help at the Off-Campus Student Services web site at www.colorado.edu/OCSS.

You can find detailed information on the application process, as well as academic programs, requirements, costs, and housing on the International Prospective Student site at www.colorado.edu/prospective/international.

For new freshmen and transfer students, each school and college has a formal orientation program. You will receive information about the program and when you should attend shortly after you have confirmed your intention to attend CU. For graduate students, there is a general graduate student orientation immediately preceding the start of each fall semester, and many departments offer their own orientations as well. You should watch for information from your department.

All the information you need is on the Office of the Registrar's web site at registrar.colorado.edu/Support/Residency/Residency.htm including a petition form that you can download.

When you begin work at CU-Boulder, only your course credits, not your grades, transfer to your CU record. However, all of your grades are used in the admission decision process. For more information on how to transfer to CU-Boulder, go to www.colorado.edu/prospective/transfer.

The Office of Admissions does an initial evaluation of your transfer credit once you have been admitted and have confirmed your intent to enroll. At orientation, the dean's office of the college or school to which you've been admitted makes the final determination of how your transfer credits apply to degree requirements at CU-Boulder.

You can find steps to transferring to CU-Boulder on the transfer prospective student site at www.colorado.edu/prospective/transfer. This site includes transfer admission criteria, credit transfer guidelines, and course equivalency guides for Colorado two year colleges that will aid you in doing an early self-assessment.

To see estimated expenses based off of a single student in the College of Arts and Sciences living on campus during the fall and spring semesters go to www.Colorado.EDU/admissions/expenses.html.

You can visit us online or in-person! Check out our online visitor center at www.colorado.edu/visit, where you will find information on planning your visit to Boulder, university attractions, online tours, and the Office of Admissions campus visit programs.