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Admissions Office Gives
First-Year Class Figures

Seventy-five per cent of the
first-year students at the University
this year came from public high
schools, an eight per cent increase
over 1968. Applications for the
entering classes in the three schools
that admit students in the first year
- the College of Arts and Sciences,
School of Engineering and Applied
Science and School of Architecture
- numbered 5,024 this year. Of
those, ,528 were enrolled this fall,
according to statistics compiled by
the Dean of Admissions. Finest H.
Ern. A total of 817 Virginians,
representing 53 per cent of the
entering class, enrolled this fall.

Ninety per cent of the students
entering the College and the engineering
school came from the top
two-fifths of their classes, 86 per
cent of the architecture students.

Average College Board scholastic
aptitude scores for this year's
College first-year man were 594 on
verbal, 634 on math. Average scores
for entering engineering students
were 555 on verbal, 648 on math.
Architecture students had average
scores of 599 on verbal, 666 on
math.

Echols Scholars

Average scores for this year's 71
Echols-Scholars, exceptionally able
students in an individualized academic
program, were some 100
points higher than for the entering
class as a whole. Scores for the
Echols Scholars were 697, verbal,
and 713, math. All of these
students came from the top two-fifths
of their classes, 92 per cent of
them from the top fifth. Seventy
per cent of the Echols Scholars
were graduates of public schools.

Included in the new class are 62
former student body presidents and
115 who were captains of high
school football, basketball or baseball
teams. Alumni sons number
160 or 10 per cent of the class.

Of the 270 transfer students
from 77 colleges enrolled this year
in the College and the architecture,
engineering, nursing, commerce and
education schools, 73 per cent are
Virginians. They do not include
inter-University transfers for students
already enrolled in the
University at Charlottesville.

There are 9,735 students enrolled
in all schools of the University
at Charlottesville this fall.