GLOSSARY FOR APPLICATION REPORTS

The following are definitions of row and column headings used in admission reports. If you have questions about the reports not answered below, please send email to anstud@redwood.humboldt.edu so that we can add to this file. Thank you.

2ND BACHELORS already have earned an undergraduate degree and would are interested in getting another.

ACTIVE ADMITS excludes students who have told us they do not plan to attend and those who have been denied admittance.

ACTIVE APPS excludes applications that have been withdrawn, denied, or who have told us they do not plan to attend.

COMPARABLE DATE and TO-DATE reports initially use the number of days to (or from) the start of application cycle (e.g. Oct 1 for fall terms). As we move through the application cycle, the comparable date will change to reflect year-to-year variations in significant dates, such as the number of days to (or from) the actual start of term. Because of changes in processing, the numbers in the different columns are not always comparable. For example, students are now allowed to apply as early as Oct 1 via the web--in the past, we didn't begin processing fall applications until November 1. Also, the number and dates of HOP sessions do not remain the same from year to year, so registrations numbers may vary widely. Further explanation from the Office of Enrollment Management may be required to fully understand year-to-year differences.

CONFIRMED includes any student who has told us they intended to enroll, applied to attend an HOP session, or who has actually registered for classes.

CREDENTIAL students are enrolled with the primary objective of earning a teaching credential.

ENROLLED applicants includes anyone who attended school as a result of a particular application. This number may not always match census registration numbers for new students, since anyone who registers and then withdraws is eligible to enroll the following term without reapplying. This exception means that the number of enrolled applicants for a given term may actually change if one or more of these students ends up enrolling later without reapplying.

FIRST-TIME or FIRST-TIME FROSH include all matriculated first-year students, even if they have enough units to be considered sophomores. It does not include current high-school students taking classes at Humboldt (see TRANSITORY).

INQUIRED includes all prospective students who asked for information about Humboldt State University. It does not include those we mailed a SEARCH letter to who did not respond. If a student inquired but did not apply for multiple terms, they are only counted as an inquiry for term they mentioned most recently. Applicants are counted for every term they submitted an application.

INSTITUTION OF ORIGIN is the school a student attended before applying to Humboldt. For freshmen or graduate students, this will generally be the high school or college they graduated from. For transfers, this will be the institution where they earned the greatest number of units.

MASTERS are students seeking a masters degree (MA, MBA, MS, MSW, or MFA).

ORIGIN is the place a student comes from. Typically, we determine this by the location of a student’s Institution of Origin. If this data is missing, we use the student’s zip code. The regions are the ones defined by the Enrollment Planning Service, with the addition of a Local region, consisting of schools with a zip code beginning with 955.

RETURNING UG are past Humboldt students who are applying to be readmitted after a period of nonattendance. Returning post-bacheloriate applicants are included with new students in their respective categories (masters, credential, 2^nd bachelors, or unclassified).

TRANSFERS are all undergraduates transferring from another institution. Approximately two-thirds of these students are upper-division transfers.

UNCLASSIFIED GR are post-bacheloriate students who are taking classes, but are not yet in a degree granting program. Some of these students are seeking a Certificate of Study; others are taking classes in preparation for applying to a degree program.