Reporter Volume 25, No.10 November 4, 1993

By ANN WHITCHER
Reporter Editor

The university's total enrollment for fall 1993 stands at 25,635,
putting the university at .3 percent, or 80 students, above its
enrollment target of 25,555.
	"We set our enrollment targets for first-time students at a
level that would ensure that we would hit our overall enrollment
target," Vice President for Student Affairs Robert L. Palmer said last
week. 
	"We were extremely successful from a headcount standpoint,"
Palmer said. "To be within 80 students of our exact target, I think is
pretty commendable. 	"We do have a rather large freshman class and
do need to make an adjustment downward in the future. Our plans call
for such an adjustment. In our enrollment projections, we will see a
decline in the number of first-time freshmen and some increase in the
number of transfer students."
	Palmer said there "is some concern over the decline in the
last few years in Millard Fillmore College part-time enrollment that
we will have to address in the future."
	At an Oct. 14 presentation before the University Council,
Director of Admissions Kevin Durkin reported an enrollment increase
"in nearly every category" of student between 1991 and 1993. 
	He noted, also, the rise in single applications to UB within
SUNY "reflective of the fact that the University at Buffalo is an
institution of first-choice within SUNY, even to the point that the
University at Buffalo is the only institution that many students are
interested in. 
	"In other words, we are competing more often with private
schools than are some of our other sister institutions."
	Durkin explained that SUNY application forms allow a student
to apply to four SUNY units simultaneously. According to Durkin, the
Office of Access Services in Albany, a clearing house for
applications, "is willing to share with each SUNY unit, the number and
proportion of its applications that are single."
	In summary, Durkin said, "we have more total applications for
fall 1993 than any other SUNY unit, and we have more freshman
applications than any other single SUNY unit. We have more transfer
applications from within the SUNY system than any other SUNY unit. And
we have more transfer applications from outside the SUNY system than
any other unit in the State University of New York." 
	According to the SAT profile for the 1993 freshman class,
about 46 percent had a combined SAT score of 1100 or above, Durkin
told the Council.
	Graduate enrollment of 8,548, he added, "is just about where
we want it to be. Plans call for the university to hold graduate
enrollment steady, but for it to assume a greater proportion of the
whole." 
	Durkin also pointed to the increase in minority enrollment:
now 27 percent of new undergraduate enrollment for fall 1993. Between
1980 and 1993, he said, overall minority enrollment has risen from 14
to 17.5 percent.