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Table 12: New SEEK Students Profile, Fall 2005 to Fall 2010

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
                                                                           N= 68 126 108 118 90 82
% % % % % %
Race/Ethnicity Imputed        
White 5.9 15.1 11.1 14.4 7.8 8.5
Black 11.8 9.5 12.0 19.5 13.3 6.1
Hispanic 42.6 38.1 35.2 30.5 41.1 23.2
Asian  39.7 36.5 41.7 33.9 36.7 62.2
       
% Women 83.8 75.4 73.1 69.5 62.2 65.9
       
Student Age        
Mean Age  (number) 18.4 18.4 18.5 18.4 18.3 18.7
       
Residence        
New York City Total 98.5 99.2 94.4 98.3 95.6 98.8
Queens 25.0 33.3 25.9 18.6 36.7 37.8
Brooklyn 32.4 21.4 28.7 41.5 31.1 36.6
Manhattan 25.0 19.1 22.2 19.5 10.0 12.2
Staten Island 1.5 5.6 0.9 2.5 0.0 1.2
Bronx 14.7 19.8 16.7 16.1 17.8 11.0
       
Other NY 1.5 0.8 5.6 1.7 4.4 1.2
Nassau    1.5 0.8 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.0
Westchester    0.0 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.0 1.2
Suffolk    0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.3 0.0
Other NY Counties    0.0 0.0 4.7 0.8 1.1 0.0
     
Student and Parent(s) Place of Birth      
Student Born in US 47.1 52.4 47.2 47.5 55.6 41.5
Students Born Outside US 42.7 42.1 39.8 36.4 30.0 41.5
Student Birthplace Unknown 10.2  5.5 13.0 16.1 14.4 17.0
     
At Least 1 Parent Born in US 13.2 19.8 12.0 14.4 20.0 7.3
At Least 1 Parent Born Outside US 80.9 70.6 78.8 79.7 68.9 79.3
At Least 1 Parent Birthplace Unknown 5.9 9.6 9.2 5.9 11.1 13.4
     
Both Parents Born in US 5.9 11.1 10.2 5.1 11.1 4.9
Both Parents Born Outside US 73.5 70.6 73.2 67.8 65.6 73.2
Both Parents Birthplace Unknown 20.6 18.3 16.6 27.1 23.3 21.9
     
Total Number of Languages 10 20 14 16 15 15
     
Language        
Native language English  32.4 25.4     26.9 35.6 40.0 28.0
Native language other than English 51.5 59.5     52.8 43.2 48.9 47.6
Native language unknown 16.1 15.1     20.3 21.2 11.1 24.4
         
Speak language other than English at home     72.1 72.2    54.6 39.8 56.7 57.3
Speak English at home     11.8     9.5    13.0 14.4 11.1 3.7
Language unknown     16.2     8.3    32.4 45.8 32.2 39.0
         
Most comfortable with English 23.5 27.8 17.6 13.6 25.6 19.5
Most comfortable with language other than English 10.3 7.1 3.7 5.9 4.4 8.5
Equally comfortable with both languages 38.2 37.3 32.4 20.3 25.6 29.3
Most comfortable language unknown 27.9 27.8 46.3 60.2 44.4 42.7
         
High School Type      
NYC Public 92.7 92.1 88.8 88.0 85.6 93.8
NYC Private/Parochial 4.4 3.2 0.9 5.1 7.8 4.9
NYS but Not NYC 2.9 0.8 0.9 1.7 4.4 1.2
Out of NYS 0.0 3.2 9.3 5.1 2.2 0.0
GED 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Foreign 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Total Freshmen From Selected        
High Performance High Schools*                        N= 4 4 7 5 8 8
 - As % of NYC high school        
graduates 6.1 3.3 7.2 4.9 9.5 9.8
       
Intended majors        
Base % Answered 52.9 56.3 59.3 61.0 70.0 70.0
Sci/Medicine/Engineering 50.0 43.7 39.1 40.3 39.7 64.0
Social Sciences 13.9 12.7 15.6 13.9 17.5 10.0
Computer Science   4.7 2.8 3.2 4.0
Business   12.7 12.5 23.6 12.7 6.0
Education 25.0 22.5 18.8 8.3 7.9 4.0
Classics/Humanities 2.8 4.7 1.4 3.2 4.0
Communications     2.8 4.8 2.0
Visual/Performing Arts   2.8 3.1 2.8 3.2  
Public Admin/Law 2.7 4.2 1.6 2.8 1.6 6.0
Liberal Arts 5.6   1.6  
Math/Stat 1.4   1.4 4.8  
Source: CUNY IRDB, CUNY Show Files
* Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, Hunter, Stuyvesant, Murrow, Midwood, Townsend Harris
 

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