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Table 13: New Honors College Students Profile, Fall 2006 to Fall 2011


2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
N= 96 110 119 135 121 127

% % % % % %
Race/Ethnicity Imputed*
 
     
White 58.3 46.4 52.9 48.1 60.0 54.8
Black 5.2 12.7 9.2 13.3 6.1 11.3
Hispanic 9.4 19.1 17.6 17.8 12.2 25.0
Asian  27.1 21.8 19.3 20.7 21.7 27.4
Other           4.8


 
     
% Women 64.6 68.2 55.5 60.0 56.2 55.9


 
     
Student Age
 
     
Mean Age  (number) 18.2 18.3 18.3 18.3 18.3 18.4

           
Residence
 
     
New York City Total 82.6 73.8 74.1 73.6 72.6 75.6
Queens 28.3 35.9 28.5 29.5 31.4 28.3
Brooklyn 27.2 18.5 17.2 17.8 22.3 21.3
Manhattan 13.0 10.7 12.1 10.1 2.5 11.0
Staten Island 7.6 5.8 8.6 7.8 10.7 7.1
Bronx 6.5 2.9 7.8 8.5 5.7 7.9


 
     
Other NY 16.3 19.4 18.1 21.7 22.3 21.3
Nassau 7.6 3.9 4.3 10.9 6.6 8.7
Westchester 3.3 1.9 6.9 4.7 4.1 4.7
Suffolk 1.1 3.9 2.6 4.7 4.1 2.4
Other NY Counties 4.3 9.7 4.3 1.6 7.5 5.5

           
Other US State/Territory 1.1 6.8 7.8 4.7 5.1 3.1

           
Student and Parent(s) Place of Birth            
Student Born in US 56.5 51.5 31.0 31.8 40.0 69.3
Students Born Outside US 30.2 19.4 19.8 24.0 17.4 19.7
Student Birthplace Unknown 13.3 29.1 49.2 44.2 42.6 11.0

           
At Least 1 Parent Born in US 32.6 43.7 42.2 42.6 44.4 40.2
At Least 1 Parent Born Outside US 58.3 41.8 51.7 52.6 48.7 50.6
At Least 1 Parent Birthplace Unknown 9.1 14.5 6.1 4.8 6.9 9.2

           
Both Parents Born in US 22.8 32.0 32.8 25.6 32.2 27.6
Both Parents Born Outside US 62.0 50.5 40.5 51.2 47.8 48.0
Both Parents Birthplace Unknown 15.2 17.5 26.7 23.2 20.0 24.4

           
Total Number of Languages 18 14 13 19 13 12

           
Language              
Native language English 35.4 54.5 52.1 51.1 53.0 70.9
Native language other than English 37.5 16.4 15.1 25.2 16.6 21.3
Native language unknown 27.1 29.1 32.8 23.7 30.4 7.8

           
Speak language other than English at home 44.8 29.1 18.5 25.2 20.0 48.0
Speak English at home 36.5 18.2 10.1 9.6 13.9 37.8
Language unknown 18.8 52.7 71.4 65.2 66.1 14.2

           
Most comfortable with English 21.9 14.5 13.5 11.9 12.2 27.6
Most comfortable with language other than English 0.0 0.9 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.0
Equally comfortable with both languages 22.9 13.6 4.2 13.3 7.8 18.9
Most comfortable language unknown 55.2 70.9 81.5 74.8 80 53.5

           
High School Type            
NYC Public 53.7 65.7 52.5 53.3 61.2 56.9
NYC Private/Parochial 21.1 14.8 20.8 20.7 15.5 16.9
NYS but Not NYC 20.0 10.2 17.5 16.3 18.9 21.5
Out of NYS 5.3 8.3 9.2 9.6 4.3 4.6
GED 0 0.9 0 0 0 0.0
Foreign 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Total Freshmen From Selected
         
High Performance High Schools**             N= 43 45 37 51 46 51
 - As % of NYC high school 60.6 51.7 42.0 51.0 38.0 40.2
graduates
         


 
     
Intended majors
 
     
Base % Answered 51.0 61.8 68.1 65.9 69.4 74.8
Sci/Medicine/Engineering 28.6 32.4 43.2 38.2 39.9 51.6
Social Sciences 38.8 35.3 33.3 27.0 27.4 17.9
Computer Science
2.9 1.2 1.1   2.1
Business 4.1 1.5 2.5 1.1 1.2 2.1
Education 6.1 7.4 1.2 7.9 2.4 3.2
Classics/Humanities 18.4 10.3 6.2 10.1 9.5 15.8
Communications 4.1 2.9 6.2 2.3 9.5 1.0
Visual/Performing Arts
5.9 2.5 6.7 6.0 2.1
Public Admin/Law
  2.5   1.2 3.2
Liberal Arts
  1.2 2.3   1.0
Math/Stat
1.5
3.4 2.4  
 



 
Source: CUNY IRDB, CUNY Show Files



 
* Reported race/ethnicity shown for 2011.Total percentage may exceed 100% since multiracial responses indicated.  
**Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, Hunter, Stuyvesant, Murrow, Midwood, Townsend Harris  
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