UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ                                                                           AS/SCP/1337-1

 

 

COMMITTEE ON ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID

REPORT

 

 

To The Academic Senate, Santa Cruz Division:

 

BOARS WHITE PAPER ON THE USE OF THE SAT IN UC ADMISSIONS

Review of BOARS' discussion paper The Use of Admissions Tests by the University of California is available on CAFA’s web page:  http://senate.ucsc.edu/cafa/index.html

 

SUMMARY OF ENROLLMENT DATABASE

The UCSC Academic Senate, at the October 24, 2001 Fall Quarter meeting, recommended that CAFA formulate a plan for establishing a campuswide database for creating, tracking and comparing comprehensive admissions guidelines, including grading statistics, scores on admissions tests required by the University, and high school grades.

 

During Fall Quarter 2001, CAFA has been working with the Enrollment Management Data Base Working Group to outline the information and models needed to 1) understand the implications and the potential outcome of weighting the various factors and criteria that BOARS will be adopting; and 2) monitor the actual results over time, both in terms of how criteria impact who comes and how successful students are at UCSC.

 

The Admissions Office, Student Affairs, and Institutional Research and Policy Studies (within Planning and Budget) now provide the following reports on the outcomes and assessment of student performance and success:

 

1.

Enrollment

Undergraduate and graduate enrollment by class with new, continuing, and returning students

2.

Applicant Profile

Longitudinal application summary data with comprehensive analyses by ethnicity, community college transfer designation, selected majors and other characteristics

3.

New Student Profile

Summary with frosh, transfer, total undergraduate numbers, total enrollment, underrepresented, Regents scholars, and retention numbers

4.

Admissions Data

Narrative summary with numbers of interest to the general college population

5.

Student Profile

a)        Enrollment summary (graduate/undergraduate enrollment summary by class, region, feeder high school with graduation/retention statistics and degrees awarded)

b)       Undergraduate admissions summary (entering class profile with majors, feeder community colleges, and academic quality)

c)        Insight from UCSC student surveys (CIRP, Survey of New UCSC Frosh, UCSC Graduating Student Survey, National Survey of Student Engagement, and UCSC graduate achievements)

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ                                                                           AS/SCP/1337-2

Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid

 

 

6.

Enrollment Analysis

Spreadsheet summarizing fall enrollment by class with new, continuing, returning students and comparison data for 1995-2001

7.
Applied, Admitted, Enrolled by UCSC Region

UCSC Fall applied, admitted, and enrolled data analyzed by UCSC region with take and yield rates

8.

UC Enrollments (in CA Regions)

Pie charts for each UC demonstrating the new Fall 2001 enrollment from each CA region (UCOP region)

9.

CA Region (in each UC)        

Pie charts for each UCOP region demonstrating the new Fall 2001 enrollment from each UC

10.
UCSC Fall SAT Takers

Summary of data from the College Board reporting the score distribution of UCSC prospective applicants, # of shared prospects with other universities, and primary high school source of UCSC prospective applicants 

11.
UCSC Fall 2001 GPA/SAT I Ranges

Frequency of scores within GPA and SAT I ranges among UCSC Fall 2001 frosh

12.

UC SAT/HS GPA Summary

UC SAT and high school GPA averages by campus and ethnicity for admitted, denied and enrolled students for Fall 1997

13.
UCSC Retention/Graduation by SAT Ranges

UCSC retention, graduation and time-to-degree data by SAT I range (1992-98)

From UCSC IR 2000-2001Retention and Graduation Report (p. 29, 62-64)

14.
California Public School SAT Scores

SAT data for CA and each CA county for 1991-1999 (# and %, mean SAT I verbal/math, # and % scoring >1000)  http://ca.rand.org/cgi-bin/annual_ed.cgi 

15.

Referral Pool

Excel worksheet analyzing Fall 2001 referral pool including comparison with Fall 2001 frosh

a)       Number

b)       Academic quality

c)       Ethnicity/gender

d)       Geographic origin

e)       Parental education/socioeconomic data

f)        Application overlap

16.

Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC) Student

Excel worksheet analyzing fall ELC students including comparison with Fall frosh (1-6 same as above)

17.

Special Action/Admission by Exception

Excel worksheet analyzing fall special action/admission by exception

a)       UCSC Admissions by exception 1995-2001

b)       Persistence and Graduation Percentages:  UCSC and UC regular admission compared to special action admission students

c)       UC persistence, graduation and time-to-degree for all FTIC regularly admitted and admitted by exception

d)       UCSC retention, graduation and time-to-degree data for students admitted by exception compared to regularly admitted students (1989-1999) from UCSC IR 2000-2001 Retention and Graduation Report (p. 15-17, 30, 47-48)

e)        UCSC special action application summary for Fall 93-02 http://admissions.ucsc.edu/stats/

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ                                                                           AS/SCP/1337-3

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18.

Transfer Students

UCSC retention, graduation and time-to-degree data for junior transfers compared to continuing juniors from UCSC IR 2000-2001 Retention and Graduation Report (p.21, 22, 31)

19.

SAT I vs. SAT II debate – background information

Summary of the results of the UCOP study with implications for UCSC. Includes correlation matrix of UCSC SAT I, SAT II , and HS GPA

20.

Frequency Histogram of UCSC SAT I Scores with Descriptive Statistics

21.

Scatter Plots (w/r and r2  [proportion variance accounted for])

a)        SAT II Total (including 3rd subject) as a function of SAT I Total

b)        SAT II Total (excluding 3rd subject) as a function of SAT I Total

22.

Scatter Plots (w/r and r2  [proportion variance accounted for])

a)        SAT I Total as a function of HS GPA

b)       SAT I Verbal as a function HS GPA

c)        SAT I Math as a function HS GPA

d)       SAT II Total as a function of HS GPA

e)        SAT II English as a function HS GPA

f)        SAT II Math as a function HS GPA  

23.

Five Year History of Entering Freshmen Characteristics

Includes number of applicants, acceptance rates, take rates, test scores and HS GPA

24.

Retention and Graduation Rates by SAT I Score Ranges (Total, Verbal, Math)

25.

SAT I scores of 1999-2001 Graduates* by Division

*Includes only students who entered as Freshmen and were recently enrolled

26.

Profiles of 1999-2000 Graduates* in Selected Departments

*Includes only students who entered as Freshmen and were recently enrolled

27.

SAT Scores of New Freshmen – Fall 2001

Also includes 6-year trend in SAT I scores and incoming GPAs of new freshmen and transfer students

28.

Math Placement Scores

29.

Subject A Placement Scores

 

 

 

Respectfully Submitted:

 

                                                                          

Karen McNally, BOARS Representative

John Tamkun, Chair                 

                       

 

 

 

 

February 14, 2002