Student snapshot, 2006-07

Richard Black has overseen the admission of every undergraduate student currently at UC Berkeley. And who are the new students this year?

4,200 new freshmen, 2,000 new transfer students (and 2,775 new grad students)
55% are women, 16% underrepresented minorities, 19% first-generation college-goers
47% are Asian-American, 30% Caucasian, 12% Chicano/Latino, 3.4% African American, .5% Native American, remainder “other” or declined to state
35% are from the Bay Area, 26% from Los Angeles County, 39% from elsewhere in California — from every county except Alpine
294 out-of-state students, 72 international students
The average GPA is 3.83 unweighted, 4.26 weighted — five students received perfect SAT scores of 2400
60% of freshmen use Facebook daily; only 6% have never used it
Most popular CD purchased by freshmen: Stadium Arcadium, by the Red Hot Chili Peppers