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Table 10: New Freshmen Profile, Fall 2007 to Fall 2012

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
N= 1,798 1,924 1,938 1,706 2,097 1,895
% % % % % %
Race/Ethnicity Reported *          
White 31.9 32.6 37.3 39.5 37.3 35.9
Black 10.7 8.1 11.9 11.4 11.6 10.3
Hispanic 20.0 21.0 23.0 22.2 22.6 20.3
Asian  29.6 29.5 31.5 31.1 34.8 34.9
Other 7.7 8.8 7.6 5.9 6.4 8.5
         
% Women 65.6 64.0 62.5 64.7 62.0 62.4
         
Residence          
New York City Total 81.1 83.8 81.6 82.8 81.7 82.8
Queens 31.3 33.3 34.2 36.7 36.4 33.1
Brooklyn 28.4 28.2 25.4 25.8 25.2 28.4
Manhattan 9.4 9.9 8.8 7.9 8.6 8.5
Staten Island 4.6 5.2 5.6 5.1 5.5 5.1
Bronx 7.4 7.2 7.6 7.2 6.0 7.7
         
Other NY 11.3 12.3 13.9 14.0 14.1 13.7
Nassau 4.8 4.8 5.9 4.9 6.4 5.1
Westchester 2.0 3.2 2.3 3.0 2.3 2.6
Suffolk 2.3 2.2 3.1 3.0 2.7 3.6
Other NY Counties 2.2 2.1 2.6 3.1 2.7 2.4
         
Other US State/Territory 7.6 3.9 4.5 3.2 4.1 3.5
         
Total Number of Countries 61 76 70 64 78 60
Total Number of Languages 56 53 50 53 59 50
         
Student and Parent(s) Place of Birth          
Student Born in US 44.2 37.3 35.4 38.5 50.1 54.3
Students Born Outside US 31.0 27.1 25.9 24.4 24.1 24.7
Country Unknown 34.9 25.1 29.2 32.4 33.8 34.7
Asia 26.3 36.8 37.7 33.3 33.3 32.7
Eastern Europe 17.4 3.3 8.5 12.0 7.4 10.0
Caribbean 7.1 6.5 5.7 5.3 5.7 5.7
South America 6.3 6.3 6.5 5.5 9.1 5.9
Central Asia   3.1 1.9 3.6 1.9 1.7
Middle East 1.0 2.3 2.0 2.9 2.4 3.3
Africa 1.5 0.8 2.6 0.7 1.7 0.9
North America 0.9 2.3 2.6 0.7 2.4 3.1
Central America 2.9 2.5 0.9 1.0 0.9 0.4
Western Europe 1.3 2.1 2.4 2.4 1.5 1.3
Oceania     0.2   0.2
Student Birthplace Unknown 24.8 35.6 38.7 37.1 25.8 21.0
         
At Least 1 Parent Born in US 30.8 27.8 29.0 26.4 25.2 24.4
At Least 1 Parent Born Outside US 68.2 63.9 64.3 65.2 64.1 66.5
At Least 1 Parent Birthplace Unknown 1.0 8.3 6.7 8.4 10.7 9.1
         
Both Parents Born in US 21.3 20.4 20.3 17.2 16.6 17.3
Both Parents Born Outside US 57.8 55.3 55.1 55.7 54.8 58.0
Both Parents Birthplace Unknown 20.9 24.3 24.6 27.1 28.6 24.7
         
Language          
Native language English 46.7 46.9 49.1 49.3 54.1 57.0
Native language other than English 34.5 31.2 30.4 26.7 30.6 30.9
Native language unknown 18.8 21.9 20.5 24.0 15.3 12.1
         
Speak language other than English at home 49.9 37.7 30.8 39.6 51.3 52.8
Speak English at home 23.2 15.6 12.8 16.0 26.9 29.8
Language unknown 26.8 46.7 56.4 44.4 21.8 17.4
         
Most comfortable with English 16.5 14.8 15.0 17.4 26.7 29.5
Most comfortable with language other than English 2.0 1.5 0.9 1.0 2.3 1.4
Equally comfortable with both languages 20.9 15.1 14.2 11.8 21.5 20.9
Most comfortable language unknown 60.6 68.6 69.9 69.8 49.6 48.2
         
High School Type          
NYC Public 65.9 68.0 63.3 67.2 66.3 69.8
NYC Private/Parochial 11.5 13.2 13.4 13.4 12.9 11.4
NYS but Not NYC 11.0 12.3 12.8 12.9 13.3 13.3
Out of NYS 5.5 5.0 5.2 4.3 6.0 4.8
GED 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.1
Foreign 1.3 1.0 2.0 1.9 1.2 0.6
Total Freshmen From Selected          
High Performance High Schools**          N=
255 289 300 317 344 378
 - As % of NYC high school graduates
21.6 22.1 23.7 27.9 25.0 28.8
         
Intended majors          
Base % Answered 64.7 65.4 67.3 67.6 66.5 67.5
Sci/Medicine/Engineering 45.7 44.5 49.2 51.3 53.3 56.7
Social Sciences 16.1 15.5 16.3 16.9 14.3 13.5
Computer Science 3.5 3.0 2.8 2.0 3.2 4.0
Business 7.5 11.8 5.5 4.8 5.9 5.3
Education 6.4 7.2 6.6 4.7 5.9 3.8
Classics/Humanities 5.4 3.8 6.4 6.7 5.5 5.5
Communications 4.7 5.7 4.1 4.7 3.5 3.6
Visual/Performing Arts 6.2 5.5 4.7 3.9 4.4 4.2
Public Admin/Law 2.2 1.8 2.8 2.8 1.9 2.5
Liberal Arts 0.3 0.6 0.8 0.4 0.6 0.2
Math/Stat 2.0 0.7 0.9 1.3 1.4 0.6
Source: CUNY IRDB, CUNY Show Files
*Total percentage may exceed 100% since multiracial responses indicated.
** Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, Hunter, Stuyvesant, Murrow, Midwood, Townsend Harris
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