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Wstrdg
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Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2007 07:21 pm |
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http://statfinder.ucop.edu/
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
University of California officials announced today that a new Web site would provide public access to a wide range of admissions data from the system’s 10 campuses and give visitors the tools to create their own tables with the information.
System officials said the new site, dubbed UC StatFinder, would allow the parents of prospective students to find out such information as how many people from their community had been admitted to a University of California campus. Legislators would be able to monitor the racial and geographic diversity of students admitted to the university, officials said, and high-school counselors could get data on the average number of honors courses taken by students at their schools who were admitted to the system.
Admissions datat for years 1995, 2000 and 2005 are available now. More years follow in the future, plus additional metrics relating enrollees' performance.
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PrimetimeMom
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Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2007 07:53 pm |
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I couldn't figure out how to use it. It kept taking me back to the same choices and not displaying the tables. I'll try again in another 20 minutes after a rest for my brain
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Wstrdg
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Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2007 09:02 pm |
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Click hotlink "Statfinder." This should take you to a wizard page showing 8 steps to create your own table. Each step is one page, click "Next" at lower right hand corner to advance. Some pages limit the number of variables you may select. Last page has button "Run Table" at lower right hand corner.
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PrimetimeMom
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Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2007 11:09 pm |
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Thank you! I was blind to the final button on the lower right hand corner.
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Wed Oct 31st, 2007 02:48 am |
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| Wstrdg, Thanks for sharing this. What I thought was interesting, although I haven't looked at it closely enough to draw specific conclusions, were the admit rates by family income level -- each of the UC campuses appears, at a quick glance, to have the largest percentage of students be in the $40,000 or less category. To some extent that makes sense -- lower income kids are likely to have fewer choices -- but I hadn't expected it to also look like those kids are admitted at a fairly high rate, perhaps even a higher rate than higher income levels (again, I have to run the percentages to be sure). If true, it would be an indicator, perhaps, of the effects of the comp review process on admissions to the UC's. Interesting. Thanks again.
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DesperateDad
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Posted: Wed Oct 31st, 2007 06:15 am |
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Carolyn:
each UC campus has ~33% Pell Grantees. They HAVE to be giving big admission tips to that SES group in comparison to other major Unis. UVa, for example, is less than 10% Pell Grantees.
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