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Table 10: New Freshmen Profile, Fall 2008 to Fall 2013

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
N= 1,924 1,938 1,706 2,097 1,893 1,885
% % % % % %
Race/Ethnicity Reported *          
White 32.6 37.3 39.5 37.3 35.9 37.1
Black 8.1 11.9 11.4 11.6 10.3 10.1
Hispanic 21.0 23.0 22.2 22.6 20.3 19.6
Asian  29.5 31.5 31.1 34.8 34.9 40.4
Other 8.8 7.6 5.9 6.4 8.5 1.9
         
% Women 64.0 62.5 64.7 62.0 62.4 61.9
         
Residence          
New York City Total 83.8 81.6 82.8 81.7 82.8 79.4
Queens 33.3 34.2 36.7 36.4 33.1 31.3
Brooklyn 28.2 25.4 25.8 25.2 28.4 28.7
Manhattan 9.9 8.8 7.9 8.6 8.5 6.8
Staten Island 5.2 5.6 5.1 5.5 5.1 5.9
Bronx 7.2 7.6 7.2 6.0 7.7 6.7
Other NY 12.3 13.9 14.0 14.1 13.7 13.5
Nassau 4.8 5.9 4.9 6.4 5.1 5.9
Westchester 3.2 2.3 3.0 2.3 2.6 2.2
Suffolk 2.2 3.1 3.0 2.7 3.6 3.2
Other NY Counties 2.1 2.6 3.1 2.7 2.4 2.2
         
Other US State/Territory 3.9 4.5 3.2 4.1 3.5 7.1
         
Total Number of Countries 76 70 64 78 60 64
Total Number of Languages 53 50 53 59 50 52
         
Student and Parent(s) Place of Birth         
Student Born in US 37.3 35.4 38.5 50.1 54.3 50.9
Students Born Outside US 27.1 25.9 24.4 24.1 24.7 30.3
Country Unknown 25.1 29.2 32.4 33.8 34.7 37.5
Asia 36.8 37.7 33.3 33.3 32.7 32.0
Eastern Europe 3.3 8.5 12.0 7.4 10.0 7.5
Caribbean 6.5 5.7 5.3 5.7 5.7 3.7
South America 6.3 6.5 5.5 9.1 5.9 8.6
Central Asia 3.1 1.9 3.6 1.9 1.7 0.9
Middle East 2.3 2.0 2.9 2.4 3.3 1.7
Africa 0.8 2.6 0.7 1.7 0.9 1.2
North America 2.3 2.6 0.7 2.4 3.1 3.5
Central America 2.5 0.9 1.0 0.9 0.4 0.9
Western Europe 2.1 2.4 2.4 1.5 1.3 2.0
Oceania   0.2   0.2 0.6
Student Birthplace Unknown 35.6 38.7 37.1 25.8 21.0 18.8
         
At Least 1 Parent Born in US 27.8 29.0 26.4 25.2 24.4 24.0
At Least 1 Parent Born Outside US 63.9 64.3 65.2 64.1 66.5 65.8
At Least 1 Parent Birthplace Unknown 8.3 6.7 8.4 10.7 9.1 10.1
         
Both Parents Born in US 20.4 20.3 17.2 16.6 17.3 17.8
Both Parents Born Outside US 55.3 55.1 55.7 54.8 58.0 70.9
Both Parents Birthplace Unknown 24.3 24.6 27.1 28.6 24.7 11.2
Language            
Native language English 46.9 49.1 49.3 54.1 57.0 58.2
Native language other than English 31.2 30.4 26.7 30.6 30.9 36.5
Native language unknown 21.9 20.5 24.0 15.3 12.1 5.3
         
Speak language other than English at home 37.7 30.8 39.6 51.3 52.8 51.8
Speak English at home 15.6 12.8 16.0 26.9 29.8 17.2
Language unknown 46.7 56.4 44.4 21.8 17.4 31.0
         
Most comfortable with English 14.8 15.0 17.4 26.7 29.5 39.6
Most comfortable with language other than English 1.5 0.9 1.0 2.3 1.4 1.8
Equally comfortable with both languages 15.1 14.2 11.8 21.5 20.9 25.5
Most comfortable language unknown 68.6 69.9 69.8 49.6 48.2 33.0
High School Type          
NYC Public 68.0 63.3 67.2 66.3 69.8 75.2
NYC Private/Parochial 13.2 13.4 13.4 12.9 11.4 9.1
NYS but Not NYC 12.3 12.8 12.9 13.3 13.3 10.5
Out of NYS 5.0 5.2 4.3 6.0 4.8 4.9
GED 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.1 0.1
Foreign 1.0 2.0 1.9 1.2 0.6 0.2
Total Freshmen From Selected High Performance High Schools**         N=
         
289 300 317 344 378 399
 - As % of NYC high school graduates 22.1 23.7 27.9 25.0 28.8 31.0
Intended majors          
Base % Answered 65.4 67.3 67.6 66.5 67.5 67.4
Sci/Medicine/Engineering 44.5 49.2 51.3 53.3 56.7 57.7
Social Sciences 15.5 16.3 16.9 14.3 13.5 16.4
Computer Science 3.0 2.8 2.0 3.2 4.0 5.1
Business 11.8 5.5 4.8 5.9 5.3 3.1
Education 7.2 6.6 4.7 5.9 3.8 3.7
Classics/Humanities 3.8 6.4 6.7 5.5 5.5 7.2
Communications 5.7 4.1 4.7 3.5 3.6 0.0
Visual/Performing Arts 5.5 4.7 3.9 4.4 4.2 5.1
Public Admin/Law 1.8 2.8 2.8 1.9 2.5 0.0
Liberal Arts 0.6 0.8 0.4 0.6 0.2 0.0
Math/Stat 0.7 0.9 1.3 1.4 0.6 1.7
*Total percentage may exceed 100% since multiracial responses indicated.
** Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, Hunter, Stuyvesant, Murrow, Midwood, Townsend Harris
Source: CUNY IRDB, CUNY Show Files
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