UCI to Enroll Larger, More Diverse Class
UC Irvine expects the largest incoming freshman class this fall since the university was founded in 1965 and anticipates a 15% increase in the number of underrepresented minorities, a spokeswoman said.
About 3,700 freshmen are expected to enroll, while the number of qualified applicants UCI had to turn down totaled 5,560, spokeswoman Sherry Angel said.
Underrepresented minority students are expected to increase to 527, Angel said. Last fall, there was a total of 457 students of African American, Native American, Latino and Chicano or Mexican descent. That compared with 363 students a year earlier, she said.
The ethnic breakdown of last year’s freshmen class and the projected change for this fall: African Americans, from 71 to 81; Asian Americans, from 1,720 to 2,165; Chicanos, from 280 to 338; Latinos, 84 to 95; whites, 649 to 820; others, from 53 to 71. There were 242 students who declined to state ethnicity, Angel said.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
