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    Deposits Show Campus Diversity Is Increasing



    The Fall 2002 entering class is expected to be the most diverse in the history of UC Santa Barbara.
    Of the 17,716 applicants for the freshman class who were accepted, UCSB has received deposits and Statements of Intent to Register (SIRs) from 4,089. Of those, 1,546, or 37.8 percent, are members of minority groups. The 860 members of underrepresented minority groups­African Americans, American Indians, and Chicanos and Latinos­account for 21 percent of the expected entering class.
    The number as well as the proportion of the entering class represented by all minority students and all underrepresented minority students are larger than last year and larger than in 1997. That was the year before all UC campuses began to see the effects of the prohibition on the use of race as a factor in admissions.
    UCSB has seen increases in the number of students making deposits in all racial and ethnic categories except whites. The 2,130 white students who have sent in deposits was 10 fewer than at the same point in the process one year ago.
    Last year at this time, UCSB had received deposits from a total of 3,881 students. Final enrollment statistics will not be available until several weeks after the start of classes in the fall.
    Although deposits have been received from 4,089 students, UCSB expects to enroll less than that, about 3,800, when classes begin. Christine Van Gieson, director of admissions, explains that there always is a slight dip in the numbers after deposits are made. Just the same, she notes that when classes begin, the campus will still see more first-year students from all of the underrepresented minority groups than it did one year earlier.
    Statistics on incoming transfer students are not yet available, but Van Gieson says that UCSB is expecting to enroll about 1,300, a number comparable to last year.