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The Geographic Distribution of Freshmen Students at Hunter
College2010-2011
Prianka AhmedDenys DukhovnovDanielle FinneReneel LangdonFausto LopezMurtaza MunirTomoko ShioharaLira SkenderiOlivia TorresPeter Tuckel
Spring 2012
Primary Objective
• The main objective of this research is to display the geographic distribution of the residences of students at various stages of the admissions process for Hunter. These stages range from application to acceptance to enrollment to retention.
Data
• The primary dataset upon which this analysis rests consists of the total number freshmen students who applied, who were admitted, who enrolled, and who were retained after one semester and one year by zip code during the year of 2010 to 2011. The data is also disaggregated by race: non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic Asian and Hispanic.
Data II
• Appended to this primary data set were two demographic variables from the decennial (2000) U.S. census at the zip code level. These variables were the racial composition of the zip code (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic Asian and Hispanic) and median household income.
Part 1:
Freshmen Students
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Application, Acceptance and Enrollment rates
• 30,256 people applied to Hunter College
• 25.1% (7,604 students) who applied to Hunter College were accepted
• Of that 25%, 23.5% students chose to enroll (1788 students)
Retention rates
• After one semester, 90 students left Hunter
• After one year, an additional 198 students left Hunter
• In total, 288 students left Hunter within one year.
• Hunter College’s retention rate was 83.9%
Applicants
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• The largest group of applicants were Hispanics, who made up 23.1% of all applicants.
• The second largest group of applicants where Whites which made up 20.8% of the applicants.
• 19.3% of applicants were Asian.
• 19.2% of applicants were Black.
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•The largest amount of applicants came from Queens County, with 8,377 applicants
•Following closely, Kings County (Brooklyn) had 8,007 applicants
•The number of applicants from every other county decreases significantly: the county with the third largest number of applicants was Bronx county with 4,707 applicants
•New York and Richmond county had 2958 and 1656 applicants respectively
Applicants by County II
•Outside of the 5 boroughs, Nassau county had the most applicants with 1,117 total.
•The “Select NJ counties” collectively make up 266 applicants—this essentially makes NJ counties irrelevant
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•In Queens, the number one borough of applicants, Asians and Hispanic applicants predominate
•In Brooklyn, Blacks applicants predominate
•In Manhattan, Hispanics are the largest group of applicants
•Outside of the 5 boroughs, White applicants tend to predominate
Applicants by Race and County Combined
Admitted Students
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•2,556 White applicants were admitted
•2,262 Asian applicants were admitted
•Following in distant third place were Hispanics with 896 applicants admitted
•Only 642 Black applicants were admitted
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A Comparison of the Racial Composition of Applicants and Admitted Students
Applicants by Race Admitted by Race
The Percent of Those Who Apply who Are Admitted by Race
•Whites had the highest rate of admission with 40.5% of those who applied being admitted.
•This is much higher than the rate of admission for Blacks, where only 11.7% of those who applied were ultimately admitted.
•The admission rate of White people is also much higher than that of Hispanics, of which only 12.8% of all Hispanic who applied were admitted.
•Asian also had a comparatively high admission rate with 38.7% of Asians who applied were admitted
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• Queens and Brooklyn had the most admitted student
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• Among the five boroughs, the Bronx had by far the lowest admissions rate
• Outside the five boroughs, admission rates tended to be much higher, with the highest rate being from Suffolk county with 55% being admitted
Enrollment
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Total Enrolled: 1788
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• Asians and Whites enroll at higher rates with 590 and 698 enrollees respectively
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Despite having the lowest rates of admission at ~12%, Hispanics and Blacks ultimately chose to enroll more often than Whites or Asians, who were admitted at much higher rates (38% - 40%)
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• Most enrolled students come from Queens and Brooklyn
• The total number of enrolled students from the other counties is considerably less.
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• The five boroughs tend to have higher enrollment rates than the other counties, with the exception of Richmond County (Staten Island), which has the same enrollment rate as Suffolk County
Geographic Mapping of Enrolled Freshmen Students
Geographic Distribution of Number of Enrolled Freshmen
Students by Zip Codes of 11 Counties
Geographic Distribution of Number of Enrolled Students by
Zip Codes of 11 Counties
Geographic Distribution of Number of Applicants by
Zip Codes of 5 Boroughs
Geographic Distribution of Number of Admitted Freshmen by
Zip Codes of 5 Boroughs
Geographic Distribution of Number of Enrolled
Students by Zip Codes of the 5 boroughs
Geographic Distribution of Number of Enrolled Students by Zip Codes
of 8 counties
• An overwhelming majority of enrolled students come from counties that are in very close proximity to Hunter.
Geographic Distribution of Number of Enrolled Students by Zip Codes
of the 5 boroughs
• As we zoom in to examine the 5 boroughs, we can see that most enrollees come from outside of Hunter’s home borough, Manhattan
Location of Select CUNY Senior Colleges
Location of Select CUNY Senior Colleges
Location of Select CUNY Senior Colleges
• There are many clusters of Freshmen enrollees who live close to a different CUNY, but choose to attend Hunter instead.
• Reasons may include: perceived prestige, a desire to experience Manhattan more fully, etc.
Map of Enrolled Students and MTA Subway Lines
Map of Enrolled Students and MTA Subway Lines
• In the map that shows the subway lines, it seems that close proximity to a subway line creates clusters of high enrollment rates. Proximity to a subway line is likely to be a vital factor in deciding whether to attend Hunter or not.
Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Bronx County
Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes in Bronx County
Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes in Bronx County
Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes
in Bronx County
• Lower to Middle Class students tend to enroll in higher numbers. However, those in the lowest or highest income bracket do not frequently enroll.
Number of Enrollees and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Bronx County
Number of Enrollees and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Bronx County
• The areas with the highest enrollment numbers consist of non-white minorities.
Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in New York County (Manhattan)
Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes in Manhattan
Number of Applicants in Manhattan
Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes in Manhattan
The Lower East Side has the highest concentration of enrollees,
and one of the lowest median incomes in Manhattan.
Areas with the highest media incomes have the lowest enrollment
Number of Enrollees and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Manhattan
Number of Enrollees and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Manhattan
The zipcode with the highest concentration of enrollees is 10002,
which is in the Lower East Side.
The areas with the highest concentration of enrollees are minorities.
Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Queens County
Number of Applicants in Queens
Number of Admitted Students in Queens
Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes in Queens
Number of Enrollees and Racial Composition of Zip Codesin Queens
Areas with lowest enrollment are primarily black
Ares with the highest enrollment are mixed—some have
many Hispanics, some have majority Asian
Number of Enrollees and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Queens
Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Kings County (Brooklyn)
Number of Applicants in Brooklyn
Number of Admitted Students in Brooklyn
Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes in Kings (Brooklyn) County Add brooklyn on map
Racial Composition of Kings County (Brooklyn) by Zip Code
In brooklyn, in areas that generally have low number of enrolless have
Blakc ppl, high enrollment have asian white. Not too many hispanics
Relationship between race and income is not necessariyl there,
white areas have hog enrollment, but low income
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Findings
• In all four boroughs illustrated, areas with lower to middle class median incomes tend to have more people enrolled
• However, zip codes with the lowest median incomes sometimes have 2 or fewer enrollees, especially in the Bronx
Retention
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• The largest racial group of students who are not retained are White students at 130 students (18% of all White enrollees ) leaving Hunter after 1 year
• The smallest total group of students who are not retained at Black students with 30 students who leave
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• However, even though only 30 Black students left Hunter, this creates a 16% non-retention rate for Black Students, the second largest non-retention rate among racial groups
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• The 4 highest non-retention rates by county are from counties that are not the 5 boroughs.
• Out of the five boroughs, Bronx had the highest non-retention rate with 21% of all enrolled students eventually leaving Hunter after 1 year
• While Kings and Queens county had the largest number of non-retainees, both counties had the lowest rates of non-retention with ~13% leaving
Part II: Transfer Students
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• 13,139 students applied to transfer into Hunter College compared to 30,256 students applying as freshmen.
• There was a 24.8% acceptance rate for transfer students compared to a 25.1% acceptance rate for freshmen
• The retention rate (72.5%) of transfer students was significantly smaller than that of freshmen
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• Accepted transfer students enrolled at a much higher rate than accepted freshmen students (X%)
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• Unlike freshmen applicants, there were more White transfer applicants than Hispanic transfer applicants
• The smallest group of transfer applicants were Asians with 1868 student applicants.
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• There were more applicants from Manhattan than the Bronx, unlike freshmen applicants where there were were more Bronx applicants than Manhattan
• The fewest amount of applicants came from Staten Island, and even Suffolk County had more applicants
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• The largest group of applicants to be admitted were White applicants with 1,207 admitted.
• Similar to the freshmen data, the group with the lowest number of admitted students were Black applicants with 452 admitted
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• The transfer data mirrors the freshmen data in that the highest rate of admission belongs to White and Asian applicants, while the lower rates are seen in Hispanic and Black applicants
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• The highest rate of admission came from Suffolk county (33%), unlike freshmen admission rates where Queens had the highest rate
• The lowest admission rate out of all the counties was for the Bronx with a 15% admission rate
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• White students enrolled as transfers the most
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• White students also had the highest enrollment rate as transfers (61%), while freshmen enrollment rates were highest for Hispanics at ~35%
• In general, enrollment rates by race were much higher for transfers than freshmen
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• By county, the enrollment rates were much higher than of admitted freshmen
• Admitted Suffolk county transfer students were least likely to enroll
Geographic Mapping of Enrolled Transfer Students
Number of Enrolled Transfer Students by Zip Code of 11 counties
Number of Enrolled Transfer Students by Zip Code of 5 boroughs
Locations of Select CUNY Colleges
Number of Enrolled Transfer Students by Zip Code of 5 boroughs With Subway Map
Findings
• Similar to the results of the mapping of the enrollment numbers of freshmen students, many clusters of higher enrollment rates can be found along subway lines/stops
• Manhattan continues to have fewer enrollees despite it being the home borough of Hunter
Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Brooklyn
Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes in Brooklyn
Number of Enrollees and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Brooklyn
Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Manhattan
Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Queens County
Number of Applicantd in Queens
Number of Admitted Students and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Queens
Number of Enrollees in Queens
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• As with freshmen students, White students had the highest number of non-retainees
• However, White transfer students did not have the highest non-retention rate. The non-retention rate of Black transfer students was the highest rate at ~39% of all Black transfer students leaving Hunter after 1 year
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• Overall, transfer students tend to leave Hunter after 1 year more than freshmen students
• Suffolk, Manhattan, and Brooklyn had the highest non-retention rate
Conclusion
Conclusion• There are many questions and conclusions we can draw
from the facts presented today:
• There is a higher rate of non-retention among transfer students than freshmen students. Why do transfer students leave Hunter more often?
• Why is the admission rate of Hispanic and Black applicants comparatively low for both freshmen and transfer applicants?
• Why did only 178 freshmen Black students enroll?
• Why exactly do people who live in close to other senior CUNY schools choose to enroll at Hunter instead of their “home” CUNY?
Conclusion II• What can be done to raise the
retention rate across the board?
• Should we, and if so, how can we, encourage more students from Manhattan to apply to Hunter?
• TO BE COMPLETED WITH SUMMARY…
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