The Geographic Distribution of Freshmen Students at Hunter College 2010-2011

Prianka Ahmed Denys Dukhovnov Danielle Finne Reneel Langdon Fausto Lopez Murtaza Munir Tomoko Shiohara Lira Skenderi Olivia Torres Peter Tuckel

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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.

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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.
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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.
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Part 1: Freshmen
Students
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dmitted, Enroll, and Are Retained for One Sem

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Number of 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)

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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 Colleges retention rate was 83.9%
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Applican ts

he Total Number of Students who Apply by Ra

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The Total Number of Students who Apply by Race

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.edit Master subtitle style Click to

19.3% of applicants were Asian. 19.2% of applicants were Black.

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Applicants by County
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Applicants by County
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

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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 applicantsthis essentially makes NJ counties irrelevant

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plicants by Race and County Combin

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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

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Admitted Students
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umber of Students Who Are Admitted by

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The Number of Students Who Are Admitted by Race

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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Admissions Rate by Race

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Race

A Comparison of the Racial Composition of Applicants and Admitted Students

Applicants by Race

Admitted by Race

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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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Admitted Students by County

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Admitted Students by County

Queens and Brooklyn had the most admitted student

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Admissions Rate by County

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County

Admissions Rate by County

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

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Enrollmen t

ber of Admitted Students who Enroll by R

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Number of Admitted Students who Enroll by Race

Asians and Whites enroll at higher rates with 590 and 698 enrollees respectively

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ntage of Admitted Students who Enroll by

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Percentage of Admitted Students Who Enroll by Race

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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Enrolled Students by County

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Enrolled Students by County

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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nt of Those Who Are Admitted Who Enroll

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County

The Percent of Those Who Are Admitted Who Enroll by County

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

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Geographic Mapping of Enrolled Freshmen Students

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Geographic Distribution of Number of Enrolled Freshmen Students by Zip Codes of 11 Counties

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Geographic Distribution of Number of Enrolled Students by Zip Codes of 11 Counties

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Geographic Distribution of Number of Applicants by Zip Codes of 5 Boroughs

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Geographic Distribution of Number of Admitted Freshmen by Zip Codes of 5 Boroughs

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Geographic Distribution of Number of Enrolled Students by Zip Codes of the 5 boroughs

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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.

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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 Hunters home borough, Manhattan

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Location of Select CUNY Senior Colleges

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Location of Select CUNY Senior Colleges

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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.

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Map of Enrolled Students and MTA Subway Lines

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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.
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Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Bronx County
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Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes in Bronx County

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Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes in Bronx County

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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.

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Number of Enrollees and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Bronx County

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Number of Enrollees and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Bronx County

The areas with the highest enrollment numbers consist of nonwhite minorities.

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Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in New York County (Manhattan)
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Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes in Manhattan

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Number of Applicants in Manhattan

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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

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Number of Enrollees and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Manhattan

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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.

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Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Queens County
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Number of Applicants in Queens

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Number of Admitted Students in Queens

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Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes in Queens

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Number of Enrollees and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Queens

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Number of Enrollees and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Queens

Areas with lowest enrollment are primarily black

Ares with the highest enrollment are mixedsome have many Hispanics, some have majority Asian

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Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Kings County (Brooklyn)
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Number of Applicants in Brooklyn

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Number of Admitted Students in Brooklyn

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Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes in Kings Add brooklyn on map (Brooklyn) County

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Racial Composition of Kings County (Brooklyn) by Zip Code

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Relationship between race and income is not necessariyl t 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

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Retentio n

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Number of Enrolled Students Who Are Not Retained After 1 Year by Race

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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Percent of Enrolled Students Who are Not Retained After 1 Year by Race

However, even though only 30 Black students left Hunter, this creates a 16% non-retention rate for Black Students, the second largest nonretention rate among racial groups

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tudents Who are Not Retained After 1 Ye

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Those Enrolled Who Are Not Retained After 1

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County

The Percent of Those Enrolled Who Are Not Retained After 1 Year by County

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 5/23/12

Part II: Transfer

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ied, Enrolled, Admitted and Retained Stu

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Applied, Enrolled, Admitted and Retained Students

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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Applied, Enrolled, Admitted and Retained Students II

Accepted transfer students enrolled at a much higher rate than accepted freshmen students (X%)

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son of Freshmen and Transfer Applicants

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Comparison of Freshmen and Transfer Applicants By Race

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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Transfer Applicants by County

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Transfer Applicants by County

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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parison of Freshmen and Transfer Admitte

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Racial Comparison of Freshmen and Transfer Admitted Students

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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son of Admission Rates among Freshmen

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Racial Comparison of Admission Rates among Freshmen and Transfers

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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ber of Admitted Transfer Students by Co

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Number of Admitted Transfer Students by County

Queens and Brooklyn had the highest number of admitted students, which was also true for freshmen

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Admission Rate by County

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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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Number of those admitted who enroll by

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The Number of those Admitted who Enroll by Race

White students enrolled as transfers the most

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Enrollment Rates by Race

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Enrollment Rates by Race

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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e Number of Students who Enroll by Coun

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Queens and Brooklyn continue to have the highest number of students who enroll

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The Percent of Those Admitted Who Enroll by County

By county, the enrollment rates were much higher than of admitted freshmen Admitted Suffolk county transfer students were least likely to enroll

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Geographic Mapping of Enrolled Transfer Students

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Number of Enrolled Transfer Students by Zip Code of 11 counties

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Number of Enrolled Transfer Students by Zip Code of 5 boroughs

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Locations of Select CUNY Colleges

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Number of Enrolled Transfer Students by Zip Code of 5 boroughs With Subway Map

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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
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Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Brooklyn

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Number of Enrollees and Median Income of Zip Codes in Brooklyn

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Number of Enrollees and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Brooklyn

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Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Manhattan

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Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Queens County
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Number of Applicantd in Queens

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Number of Admitted Students and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Queens

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Number of Enrollees in Queens

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Number of Enrollees in Queens

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Number of Enrollees in Queens

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Mapping of Median Income and Racial Composition of Zip Codes in Bronx County
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Number of Non-Retained Students by Rac

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Non-retention by Race

As with freshmen students, White students had the highest number of nonretainees 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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Non-retention by County

Overall, transfer students tend to leave Hunter after 1 year more than freshmen students Suffolk, Manhattan, and Brooklyn had the highest non-retention rate

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Conclusio n
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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?
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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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- END Thank you for your time

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