New Student Backgrounds and Admission Trends
The Office of Institutional Research and Assessment gathers a variety of data and information about new students.
Admission trends and demographic information:
- Evergreen First-time, First-year Students
- Evergreen Transfer Students
- Admission History Summary (1982-2016) (PDF)
- Maps of Geographic Origin of New Students
- A 20+ Year Look at Admissions, 1982-2005 (2006) (PDF)
Student survey data:
Another source of information about new students are student surveys. The Evergreen New Student Survey is administered every other year by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment; Evergreen also participates biannually in the National Survey of Student Engagement, which provides information about the experience of first-year students.
Interested in the experiences, backgrounds, and outcomes of transfer students?
Read and listen to students' stories and view the poster presentation Illuminating the New Students in the Shadows: Background, Experiences, and Outcomes of Transfer Students. The poster presentation was awarded a 2007 Best Visual Presentation award and a poster presentation award by the Association for Institutional Research. View the related PowerPoint presentation (also available as a PDF). Also view demographic information on the Evergreen Transfer Students page.