Stats for incoming freshman class?

Atlanta68
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 03:35:22 +0000

http://oira.ua.edu/new/reports/5b9a6ebfd7005c7c3be281bc?Report%20Type[0][0]=Census%20Enrollment#/5b9a6ebfd7005c7c3be281bc/Table%20E1.1:%20New%20First-Time%20Undergraduates%20and%20New%20Transfers Freshman Enrollment is dramatically lower this year than last. Till the data for this Fall class is released however, we won’t know if this is a positive or negative. Personally, I hope it means UA has raised standards to improve its 6 year grad rate, reduce the stiudent/faculty ratio, and raise the quality of the lower percentile of students. In the long run, this will increase UA’s prestige.

If it the enrollment drop does not reflect a raising of standards, then I think UA admin will make some changes to return the positive momentum we have seen ever since around 2003. Perhaps the generous changes to merit scholarships, especially for in state students, are meant to reverse this decline in new students that we have seen the last two years. But I would bet that UA’s freshman class is still the second largest one in the SEC, behind only Texas A&M.