Table 42: Credits Attempted and Completed By New Freshmen and Transfer Students

	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
New Freshmen	(N=1,762)	(N=1,738)	(N=1,795)	(N=1,924)	(N=1,938)	(N=1,706)	(N=2,097)
Credits Attempted
18 +	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
15 - 18	20.1	20.2	19.4	18.9	26.1	22.7	34.7
12 - 14	75.6	76.4	77.3	77.7	70.9	73.6	62.9
< 12	4.3	3.3	3.3	3.4	3.0	3.6	2.3
Avg Credits Attempted	13.7	13.7	13.6	13.7	13.3	13.2	13.6

Credits completed
18 +	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
15 - 18	16.1	16.7	17.2	15.9	22.4	18.6	28.9
12 - 14	68.1	69.7	71.0	72.4	67.3	70.9	60.8
< 12	13.8	12.0	10.7	11.0	9.4	10.5	10.3
Avg Credits Completed	12.9	13.1	13.1	13.2	12.8	12.6	12.9

Completion Ratio	0.94	0.96	0.96	0.96	0.96	0.95	0.95

New Transfers	(N=1,446)	(N=1,599)	(N=1,477)	(N=1,447)	N=(1,563)	(N=1,626)	(N=1,706)
Credits Attempted
18 +	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.3	0.3
15 - 18	18.2	16.7	17.7	19.9	20.9	20.3	20.5
12 - 14	49.7	49.6	51.2	49.2	49.1	47.7	50.3
< 12	32.1	33.7	31.1	30.9	30.0	31.7	29.0
Avg Credits Attempted	11.0	10.9	11.1	11.2	11.4	11.3	11.5

Credits completed
18 +	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.1	0.3	0.2
15 - 18	12.9	11.6	13.9	14.3	15.5	14.3	14.5
12 - 14	41.2	42.4	45.1	44.3	46.0	42.0	44.9
< 12	42.3	41.2	38.4	38.2	35.4	43.4	40.4
Avg Credits Completed	10.0	9.9	10.3	10.4	10.6	10.2	10.4

Completion Ratio	0.91	0.91	0.93	0.93	0.93	0.90	0.90

Source: CUNY IRDB, SIMS Extract Files, Fall 2004-11
Completion Ratio=Credits Completed/Credits Attempted