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University Completes Coeducation
As 2,627 Students Matriculate

By SUZY LAWSON and
ELLEN ANDERSON

Women will enroll this fall
in precedent-setting numbers.
With the two-year transition to
coeducation completed, the
Class of 1976 is the first to be
selected at the University
without numerical restrictions
on women.

Women constitute 39 per
cent of the entering class, and
the College of Arts and
Sciences is 45 per cent women
One third (2,988) of the
applicants to the Class of 1976
were women.

Nine thousand and twenty
secondary school students
applied to the College,
Engineering and Architecture
Schools, and, of 3,692 offered
admission, 2,137 enrolled. One
thousand, six hundred and
fifty transfer applications were
received, and 490 students of
662 offered admission
enrolled.

One thousand, seven
hundred and sixty one students
enrolled in the College, 281 in
the Engineering School and 95
in the Architecture School.

Eight transfer students will
enter the Architecture School,
161 the College, 28 the
Engineering School. 156 the
Nursing School. 37 the
Commerce School and 100 the
School of Education.

Eighty-one percent of the
entering College students, 74
per cent of the entering
engineering students and 72
per cent of the entering
architecture students ranked
academically in the top fifth of
their secondary school classes.

Average College Board
scores for the entering classes
of the College and Architecture
School went up slightly from
last year's record. Entering
College students showed mean
scores of 600 on verbal
aptitude and 625 on math
aptitude while entering
architecture students scored a
mean of 611 on verbal and 658
on math.

Entering engineering
students scored a mean 558 on
verbal and 642 on math.

Three hundred and fifty
students (16%) were accepted
to the University under the
Early Decision Plan as
compared to last year's 219
(10%). One hundred and
eighteen entering students are
Echo ls Scholars, of whom 49
per cent are Virginians.

About 100 students
accepted to the University
identified themselves as blacks
on their applications. About
the same number of blacks
enrolled in last year's entering
class.

Members of the entering
class come from 774 secondary
schools throughout the
country. Seventy-seven per
cent are from 531 public high
schools, and 23 per cent are
from 243 private schools.

There are 1,418 legal
residents of Virginia in the
class (66%), although only
1,408 actually reside in the
state.

The entering class contains a
high proportion of student
leaders, including 69 student
body presidents and 64 senior
class presidents.

Having aimed for a first-year
class of approximately 2000,
the undergraduate admissions
office had 2,137 students
initially enroll. To meet this
unexpected increase, some
rooms in the Alderman Road
dormitories have been
converted into triples.

Assoc. Dean of Admissions
H. Conrad Warlick mentioned
the relatively low tuition, the
excellent faculty and the
favorable location of the
University as several factors
contributing to its
attractiveness to applicants.

Mr. Warlick said the
admissions office had already
received some cancellations
from the of 1976