Minority student rolls rise for fall '07

Caption by Stephanie Diani

More than 4,600 students admitted as freshmen for fall 2007 have sent in letters stating their intent to enroll at UCLA, including 873 from underrepresented groups — an increase of almost 3 percent from last year. The biggest percentage increase in minority statements of intent to register (SIRs) is from African-American students, whose number almost doubled from 103 in fall 2006 to 203 for fall 2007. African-American SIRs increased to 4.5 percent, up from 2.2 percent last year. UCLA admitted 11,924 students for the fall 2007 freshman class from among a record 50,744 applications received.