"As the University of Houston welcomes students for fall classes, the campus is buzzing with excitement and energy, fueled by the arrival of its largest freshman class ever. More than 6,200 new freshmen are enrolled for the fall 2024 semester — a class 10% larger than any previously enrolled freshman class at UH.
This growth underscores UH’s rising reputation as a destination for top-tier students seeking a world-class education in a vibrant, urban setting."
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We must have a lot of people transferring in to be as large a student body with only 6K freshmen.
Yes, UH has a very high transfer population.
That being said, UT had about a 9,000 freshman class size out of a total population of around 50,000
UH has around the same total population, albeit a few thousand less with a freshman class of 6000 per the article
Big 12 effect on applications!
I dunno lads. Raise the transfer gpa requirement! 
Every year since 2018, the freshman class has outnumbered the transfer class. UH is still a transfer heavy school, from the local CCs to system campuses to students wanting to come home.
There’s also a smaller set of students that are at the system schools of other flagship institutions, and decide to transfer here as well.
It’s about 4400 transfers, 100 less than what was claimed for Fall 2023.
We were on par with A&M few years back with a ~63% acceptance rate, we creeped up this year to 66%. I agree though, we need to raise our standards.
lil bro hit the transfer portal from aggiehell, transfer coog, already reppin
No.
Our acceptance rate for Fall 2023 was 70%, the highest it’s been since 2010 (71%).
If they admit by proportion again it will probably rise OR admit by standards and have a significant drop.
Some colleges will ‘hold back’ admissions standards for high demand majors, such as CS in NSM (which I’m still on the boat to move it to Power 2 Cullen :shasta:)
Back to UH sports, what is the university doing with the freshman class to teach them about UH sports and fan traditions? That is one of the first steps the university can take to develop loyal alumni.
It might be because we need the numbers bc aren’t we at 47k total? I think we should shoot for 50k then cap at 50k sorta like UT.
If we’re getting 6k freshmen that is good. 33k applied so it means a lot want to get in UH.
Personally, I would rather see them reduce the acceptance rate over larger size classes. More selectivity will go better towards various academic ratings and prestige. Long ways to go on acceptance rates it seems.
I don’t agree with raising the acceptance standards. Our university is there to educate students and giving kids a chance is a good thing as long as UH still maintains high education standards.
Sometimes kids don’t take certain classes seriously in high school and it hurts their HS ranking but turn out to be outstanding college students. Maturity doesn’t always come to 15, 16, 17, & 18 year old kids, but reality hits them when they graduate from HS and look at their future.
Wow that’s incredible! We didn’t lower admissions standards so my guess is that yield went up. 6200 first time freshman vs 4400 total transfers is a big difference. A 10% increase was a really incredible feat with HS graduates being pretty flat.
good news and great news freshman are out numbering transfers, that’s much better long term for the university.
There are students that do not take HS seriously enough, but that does not mean they will take college seriously. It is a huge gamble on that aspect that, when wrong, brings in a lot of drop outs seriously hurting academic achievement, perception, and rankings. Community college is a great way to prove they have changed.
I agree that the school should support Houston students, but it still needs to do so in a manner that improves academic achievement. Reward the low income students that do work hard in high school with a good local option. Make UH a goal for local students.
This is where I think the school has a big fail. I believe A&M has what they call a Fish Camp where kids go and spend a week on campus being indoctrinated into the school and culture.
I think UH used to have that for awhile but it was stopped. @strakerak has mentioned it before.
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