CUNY Newswire

August 1, 2005 | The University

Highly prepared students from New York City’s select public high schools are coming to The City University of New York at a rate that has more than doubled in the last decade, new enrollment figures show.

Among the best and the brightest students who will begin studies this fall is 2005 Intel Science Talent Search winner David Bauer, a graduate of Hunter College High School who selected the CUNY Honors College at City College over offers from Ivy League and other top ranked colleges throughout the nation. Mr. Bauer won a $100,000 award, besting more than 1,600 contestants.

“Students like David and their families understand the value of a CUNY education,” said Chancellor Matthew Goldstein. “They join Rhodes Scholars, Truman and Goldwater winners and other CUNY stars who see the University as their ladder to success,” he stated.

A recent analysis of enrollment data show that enrollment from eight selective public high schools increased by 117 percent for the academic years beginning 1995 through 2004.

The increases include:

* Hunter College High School in Manhattan: 300 percent.
* Townsend Harris High School in Queens: 123.8 percent.
* Staten Island Technical High School: 220 percent.
* Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn: 127.3 percent.
* Brooklyn Technical High School: 113.7 percent.
* Midwood High School in Brooklyn: 113.6 percent.
* Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan: 103.3 percent.
* Bronx High School of Science: 90.5 percent

Final enrollment figures for Fall 2005, when tabulated in late October, are expected to build upon a nine year enrollment trend, CUNY officials said, citing admissions data for select high school students accepted into the University for the ten-year period through 2005.

Between 1995 and 2005, the number of students at the city’s select high schools who have been admitted to CUNY increased 58.5 percent. Leaders were Hunter College High’s with a 160 percent increase; Stuyvesant with 110.8 percent; Midwood with 104.9 percent; and Bronx High School of Science with 100.8 percent.

CUNY officials noted that in Fall 2004, more than a third of the seniors at Brooklyn Tech, Bronx High School of Science and Stuyvesant applied to CUNY colleges.

The City University of New York, the nation’s largest urban public university, includes 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, a graduate school, a law school and the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. It serves more than 450,000 degree-credit students and adult, continuing and professional education students. College Now, the University’s academic enrichment program for high school students, enrolls 40,500 students at CUNY campuses and at more than 200 high schools throughout the five boroughs of the City of New York.