The QC, Vol. 82, No. 02 • September 14, 1995

              WHITTIER
COLLEGE
September 14, 1995
l^ker Campus
The Voice Of The Campus Since 1914
▲ Women's Soccer
Cindy Bock, a freshman, goes up against a
player at Saturday's Whittier Invitational soccer
tournament where they
placed second,    pg 14
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► Mr. President
A past football player,
a die-hard Republican and
Whittier's student govern-
ment president, senior
Brian Brown is the president and more.       pg 7
C  O   L  L  E  G
L  E  G  E.
► Carnegie Hall
Six Whittier College
students took the trip of a
lifetime when they traveled to New York, NY
last June to sing at Carnegie Hall.        pg 10
► Computer L.A.
Professors at the University of Southern California are creating a data
base on Los Angeles.
The $5 million, five-
year project will include
Census data  from  lhe
graphs and numerous other bits of data.
The project is the first
to gather the history, culture, economy and geology of a single city in electronic format, said its developers.
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Higher Education
Freshman Class Smaller, More Diverse
ADMISSIONS
► This year's freshman class
decreased by 38 over last year's
as campus approaches full
capacity. Meanwhile, the
applicant pool has increased
significantly.
by VUK MILOJKOVIC
QC Senior Staff Writer
After gradually increasing
over the last five years, Whittier's
freshman enrollment decreased
slightly this year, according to the
Office of Admissions.
This Fall the incoming class
consists of 336 freshmen and 94
transfer students compared to last
year's total of 374 freshman and
94 transfers.
"This year's number is a little
smaller than last year's by design
since we have reached peak" enrollment. As a result of that we
denied more students offers of
admission than was the case in the
past," said Tom Enders, Dean of
Enrollment, who cautioned that
the final numbers will not be available until after the drop-add period.
While the number of students
enrolling as freshmen has decreased, the number of applicants
has almost doubled since 1990
(please see graph) and increased
from 1712 to 1894 since last year.
Among the significant changes in the composition of the fresh
man class is the increase in the
number of males, 41% to 48%,
and African-Americans, 4% to
7%.
"We have a very balanced
class in terms of males and females which is important for a
small community such as Whittier. We had a desire to enroll more
African-American students and
thatincreaseis very significant...,"
Enders said.
Enders was satisfied with the
overall diversity of the class with
42% of freshman belonging to
minority groups.
"The incoming class is also a
lot less local and we have more
students from outside California
than before," he commented.
Regarding the school' s recruiting strategy, Enders said a lot of
preliminary research is done before sending Admissions staff on
road shows and other recruiting
trips.
"We do a lot of sophisticated
research before selecting cities and
areas to target. After that, we start
a mailing campaign which usually lasts two to three years and is a
lot less expensive than sending
people to those cities.
"Then, we analyze the response from our mailing campaign
and decide where to send people
on road shows," Enders said.
President James Ash said in a
written statement to the QC that
he was very pleased with the increase of enrollment over the last
U.S. News Ranks College
Low, Reports Poor Retention
COLLEGE IN
THE NEWS
► Whittier ranks in the third
tier of the U.S. News rating,
which gave added emphasis to
retention rates this year.
by MEGAN A. TAYLOR
QC Managing Editor
For the second year in a row,
Whittier College ranked in the
third tier of National Liberal Arts
Colleges in "America's Best Colleges 1996 Annual Guide," as rated by U.S. News and World Report in an issue released Monday.
This places Whittier between
80 and 120 out of 161 schools in
the category.
After years of ranking in the
top ten of the Regional Liberal
Arts Colleges list, Whittier moved
to the more selective "National"
category last year.
This followed a revision by
the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching of the
college classifications which U.S.
Freshmen Admission Statistics
2000
Enrollees
Admits
Applications
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
Acceptance Rate
1990
1995
five years and attributed this increase to the College's ability to
successfully refocus the unique
qualities of Whittier College in its
marketing efforts.
"I believe that the College's
admissions process will continue
to be more and more selective in
the coming years. Given a stable
size of future freshman classes, a
growing applicant pool of increasingly stronger candidates will
translate into greater selectivity...," Ash wrote. .
According to Enders, the Admissions committee is not aware
of financial needs of students when
making its decisions, a process he
called "need-blind admissions."
Desi Danganan/QC Graphics Editor
"We have a commitment to
provide an opportunity to those
students who can not afford an
education at Whittier on their
own," Enders said.
He added that the number of
students who do not require financial aid has historically been under-represented at Whittier compared to similar institutions.
Please see CLASS pg. 6
► QC Editorial
Whittier is on the right
path towards diversity.
pg2
Dean Allen Marries Trustee
News uses to rank the 1,419 accredited four-year institutions in
the country.
President James Ash was quoted in the Sept. 8 Whittier Daily
News as saying, '"We are pleased
to be in this category. We are >-
pleased to be in the most difficult
ranking.'"
The top rated National Liberal Arts College was Amherst College in Massachusetts. Local colleges ranked in the top 40 included Pomona (8), Claremont McK-
ehna (16), Scripps (37) and Occidental (39).
The rankings within each category are based on six weighted
factors: academic reputation, fac-
Please see RANKING, pg. 6    j
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► Question
U.S. News has placed
Whittier in the third tier.
Where would you rank
Whittier? Call us.
QC Comment Line
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