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Table 13: New Honors College Students Profile, Fall 2005 to Fall 2010

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
                                                                           N= 81 96 110 119 135 121
% % % % % %
Race/Ethnicity Imputed        
White 53.1 58.3 46.4 52.9 48.1 60.0
Black 11.1 5.2 12.7 9.2 13.3 6.1
Hispanic 7.4 9.4 19.1 17.6 17.8 12.2
Asian  27.2 27.1 21.8 19.3 20.7 21.7
       
% Women 61.7 64.6 68.2 55.5 60.0 56.2
       
Student Age        
Mean Age  (number) 18.4 18.2 18.3 18.3 18.3 18.3
         
Residence        
New York City Total 75.7 82.6 73.8 74.1 73.6 72.6
Queens 24.3 28.3 35.9 28.5 29.5 31.4
Brooklyn 25.7 27.2 18.5 17.2 17.8 22.3
Manhattan 10.8 13.0 10.7 12.1 10.1 2.5
Staten Island 9.5 7.6 5.8 8.6 7.8 10.7
Bronx 5.4 6.5 2.9 7.8 8.5 5.7
       
Other NY 14.9 16.3 19.4 18.1 21.7 22.3
Nassau 6.8 7.6 3.9 4.3 10.9 6.6
Westchester 1.4 3.3 1.9 6.9 4.7 4.1
Suffolk 2.7 1.1 3.9 2.6 4.7 4.1
Other NY Counties 4.1 4.3 9.7 4.3 1.6 7.5
         
Other US State/Territory 9.5 1.1 6.8 7.8 4.7 5.1
         
Student and Parent(s) Place of Birth          
Student Born in US 56.8 56.5 51.5 31.0 31.8 40.0
Students Born Outside US 33.8 30.2 19.4 19.8 24.0 17.4
Student Birthplace Unknown 9.4 13.3 29.1 49.2 44.2 42.6
         
At Least 1 Parent Born in US 40.5 32.6 43.7 42.2 42.6 44.4
At Least 1 Parent Born Outside US 46.9 58.3 41.8 51.7 52.6 48.7
At Least 1 Parent Birthplace Unknown 12.6 9.1 14.5 6.1 4.8 6.9
         
Both Parents Born in US 25.7 22.8 32.0 32.8 25.6 32.2
Both Parents Born Outside US 47.3 62.0 50.5 40.5 51.2 47.8
Both Parents Birthplace Unknown 27.0 15.2 17.5 26.7 23.2 20.0
         
Total Number of Languages 12 18 14 13 19 13
         
Language            
Native language English 51.9 35.4 54.5 52.1 51.1 53.0
Native language other than English 24.6 37.5 16.4 15.1 25.2 16.6
Native language unknown 23.5 27.1 29.1 32.8 23.7 30.4
         
Speak language other than English at home 42.0 44.8 29.1 18.5 25.2 20.0
Speak English at home 30.9 36.5 18.2 10.1 9.6 13.9
Language unknown 27.2 18.8 52.7 71.4 65.2 66.1
         
Most comfortable with English 14.8 21.9 14.5 13.5 11.9 12.2
Most comfortable with language other than English 1.2 0.0 0.9 0.8 0.0 0.0
Equally comfortable with both languages 14.8 22.9 13.6 4.2 13.3 7.8
Most comfortable language unknown 69.1 55.2 70.9 81.5 74.8 80
         
High School Type          
NYC Public 60.8 53.7 65.7 52.5 53.3 61.2
NYC Private/Parochial 7.6 21.1 14.8 20.8 20.7 15.5
NYS but Not NYC 12.7 20.0 10.2 17.5 16.3 18.9
Out of NYS 16.5 5.3 8.3 9.2 9.6 4.3
GED 0 0 0.9 0 0 0
Foreign 2.5 0 0 0 0 0
Total Freshmen From Selected          
High Performance High Schools*                         N= 32 43 45 37 51 46
 - As % of NYC high school 59.3 60.6 51.7 42.0 51.0 38.0
graduates          
       
Intended majors        
Base % Answered 37.0 51.0 61.8 68.1 65.9 69.4
Sci/Medicine/Engineering 16.7 28.6 32.4 43.2 38.2 39.9
Social Sciences 40.0 38.8 35.3 33.3 27.0 27.4
Computer Science 3.3 2.9 1.2 1.1  
Business 3.3 4.1 1.5 2.5 1.1 1.2
Education 10.0 6.1 7.4 1.2 7.9 2.4
Classics/Humanities 10.0 18.4 10.3 6.2 10.1 9.5
Communications 10.0 4.1 2.9 6.2 2.3 9.5
Visual/Performing Arts 3.3 5.9 2.5 6.7 6.0
Public Admin/Law     2.5   1.2
Liberal Arts     1.2 2.3  
Math/Stat 3.3 1.5 3.4 2.4
 
Source: CUNY IRDB, CUNY Show Files
* Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, Hunter, Stuyvesant, Murrow, Midwood, Townsend Harris  
 

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