COSTA MESA : Students From OCC Doing Well at UCI
Former Orange Coast College students now attending UC Irvine outperformed the general undergraduate population there this fall, according to OCC officials.
The 507 former OCC students enrolled at UC Irvine this fall compiled a grade point average of 2.95, according to the recently released UC Irvine student characteristics summary. That compares with a campus-wide undergraduate average of 2.90.
The average for all community college transfers at UC Irvine this fall was 2.89.
About 17% of UCI’s 13,682 undergraduate students are community college transfers, and nearly 22% of them are from Orange Coast College.
Although the transfer students are doing well, most of them--nearly 80%--were not eligible to attend UC Irvine immediately after high school, said OCC President David A. Grant.
“Many students, for a variety of reasons, are not ready to go directly to a university after high school,” he said.
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