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Stephanie
Gross
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resident advisers greet first-year students and their families
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Profile of entering
class
The
entering class is expected to be more diverse than last year's
class, said Dean
of Admission John A. Blackburn. Among those expected in the
class of 2004 are 294 African-American students, 350 Asian-American
students and 98 Hispanic-American students. Last year there were
284 African-American students, 289 Asian-American students and
77 Hispanic-American students.
About
142 international students are expected among the first-year undergraduate
class; last year 134 international students were in the entering
class.
Just
over 82 percent of the in-coming students were ranked in the top
10 percent of their class -- a slight increase over last year's
entering class. Twenty-nine percent of the new undergraduates
were in the top 1 percent of their class, compared to 21 percent
last year. The middle 50 percent of the combined SAT scores for
the entering class was 1,220-1,410.
One
distinguishing characteristic of the entering class is that there
will be more male students this year than in last year's class.
"The percentage of males in last year's entering class, 44
percent, was the lowest in U.Va.'s history. We anticipate this
year's entering class will be 46 percent male," Blackburn
said.
Just
over 67 percent, or 1,999 students in the entering class, will
be Virginia residents.
U.Va.
police estimate that the annual "Move-In Day" brought
about 5,000 cars and 12,000 people to Grounds last Saturday. About
20 police officers were on duty from 6:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. along
Emmet, McCormick, Stadium and Alderman roads to assist in traffic
flow.
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Projected
enrollment
Undergraduate
students ....12, 521 First-year students ...............2,930
New transfer students ..............535
Graduate students ................4,089 Professional students
on-Grounds continuing ........ 1,635
Education students ..................416
On-Grounds tota ................ 18,661
Off-Grounds ...........................3,600
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