City College of San Francisco - California Competes

INTRODUCTION | CITY & COLLEGE DATA
A significant number of new first-time credit students taking the matriculation placement tests place into
pre-collegiate level Mathematics and English courses (everything below Advanced Algebra and English 1A).
The following table shows new first-time student placements in the pre-collegiate sequence overall (lower
and upper levels). In 2004, of the students taking the placement exam, 80.2 percent placed into at least
one pre-collegiate course.
TABLE 3.11
Pre-Collegiate Placement of New First-Time Students 1998 to 2004
FALL TERMS
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
One or two Lower
Level Pre-Collegiate
Placements 43.2% 43.0% 37.0% 38.4% 43.7% 46.6% 49.4%
One or two Upper
Level Pre-Collegiate
Placements
(no lower level
placements) 32.4% 33.4% 37.9% 32.8% 32.2% 33.5% 30.8%
Total New Students
with Any Pre-Collegiate
Placement(s)
(upper or lower) 75.6% 76.4% 74.9% 71.2% 75.9% 80.1% 80.2%
Collegiate
Placements Only 1.6% 1.9% 3.2% 2.9% 2.7% 2.9% 3.3%
None (No placements) 22.8% 21.6% 21.8% 25.9% 21.4% 16.9% 16.4%
Number of New
First-Time Students 3,752 3,646 3,539 4,128 3,899 3,289 3,212
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