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MOVE OVER, EINSTEIN: UCI’s freshman class promises to be the best yet academically, with a mean high school grade point average of 3.66. “We think the faculty will be very pleased,” Admissions Director James Dunning says. The average Scholastic Aptitude Test score was 1,032 out of a possible 1,600. Not bad, but UCI officials say the average of 461 on the test’s verbal portion was “artificially” low, because English is not the first language of many new freshmen.
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