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incoming undergrad students demographics - 82lsju - 09-22-2025

some stats on the the new undergrad students who arrived last week
Quote:Introducing the Class of 2029 and new transfers

- 1,870 first-year students, representing all 50 states and 64 countries
- 90 transfers (the largest cohort in recent history!) from 76 colleges and universities — 36 of them community colleges
- 80 unique languages spoken at home
- 21% first in their family to attend a 4-year university
- 11 military veterans

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RE: incoming undergrad students demographics - Treebound - 09-22-2025

Thanks Eric,
I'm curious, of the 90 transfers, do we know how many are athletes?   That must be one of our biggest transfer classes ever.

RE: incoming undergrad students demographics - BostonCard - 09-22-2025

Yeah, sadly I think the increase in number of athletes transfers is entirely accounted for through increased admission of transfer athletes through the portal.

BC

RE: incoming undergrad students demographics - chrisk - 09-22-2025

There was a report that was unattributed that Stanford was admitting off the wait list well into August

RE: incoming undergrad students demographics - paloalto - 09-22-2025

Was the 90 transfers planned or was it a result of a lower percentage of admitted students accepting their offer than anticipated?

I remember one year no transfers admitted because far more students accepted admission offer than expected.  I felt bad for all the transfer applicants that year who it turned out had no chance of being admitted.
(09-22-2025, 01:01 PM)chrisk Wrote:  There was a report that was unattributed that Stanford was admitting off the wait list well into August

That's interesting students would put off their plans so late into the process when some schools were probably already starting classes.

RE: incoming undergrad students demographics - 82lsju - 09-22-2025

(09-22-2025, 01:22 PM)paloalto Wrote:  Was the 90 transfers planned or was it a result of a lower percentage of admitted students accepting their offer than anticipated?

I remember one year no transfers admitted because far more students accepted admission offer than expected.  I felt bad for all the transfer applicants that year who it turned out had no chance of being admitted.
(09-22-2025, 01:01 PM)chrisk Wrote:  There was a report that was unattributed that Stanford was admitting off the wait list well into August

That's interesting students would put off their plans so late into the process when some schools were probably already starting classes.

or international students who either had issues getting a visa or decided not to go to school in the US

back when I transferred in (Sept 1979), I only found out I was admitted in Aug (and I had to call to find out)

RE: incoming undergrad students demographics - 2006alum - 09-22-2025

(09-22-2025, 11:33 AM)BostonCard Wrote:  Yeah, sadly I think the increase in number of athletes transfers is entirely accounted for through increased admission of transfer athletes through the portal.

BC

I was one of those aforementioned transfers from a community college, and my year (admit spring 2003), we had a roughly 90 strong transfer class. It's telling they said about 1/3 came from community colleges, which seems even higher than the percentage in my class. 

Having watched this number closely for many years, it's so variable an unfortunately the dependant variable is frosh yield. As paloalto noted, when we kill it at admit weekend we have historically decimated the transfer admissions numbers.

That said, I'm sure Athletics is *a* causal factor, but I'm just flagging this is not unprecedented, all time.

RE: incoming undergrad students demographics - 82lsju - 09-22-2025

(09-22-2025, 07:12 PM)2006alum Wrote:  
(09-22-2025, 11:33 AM)BostonCard Wrote:  Yeah, sadly I think the increase in number of athletes transfers is entirely accounted for through increased admission of transfer athletes through the portal.

BC

I was one of those aforementioned transfers from a community college, and my year (admit spring 2003), we had a roughly 90 strong transfer class. It's telling they said about 1/3 came from community colleges, which seems even higher than the percentage in my class. 

Having watched this number closely for many years, it's so variable an unfortunately the dependant variable is frosh yield. As paloalto noted, when we kill it at admit weekend we have historically decimated the transfer admissions numbers.

That said, I'm sure Athletics is *a* causal factor, but I'm just flagging this is not unprecedented, all time.

my class ('82) had ~200 transfers in (no idea of the net number of transfers in minus transfer out but our graduating class was about the same size as the admitted class, so likely a similar number of transfers out), my estimate of transfers in is based on info from the SAA at our 35th reunion, which I'm pretty sure was based on SAA records for people with '82 as their undergrad social class who had no frosh dorm in the SAA records, which is likely not 100% accurate.  No idea on the current net transfer rate (in minus out).

I assume the 90 transfers in this year is for those starting in Sept so any athletes who started in say Jan for football, or who are grad transfers, or post baccalaureate would be in addition to the 90.

RE: incoming undergrad students demographics - newguy - 09-22-2025

(09-22-2025, 07:20 AM)82lsju Wrote:  some stats on the the new undergrad students who arrived last week
Quote:Introducing the Class of 2029 and new transfers

- 11 military veterans

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does anyone know how many vets have been admitted in previous years?  with any luck, maybe we could get this number to rise.