More than 4,900 students admitted as freshmen for fall 2006 have sent in letters stating their intent to enroll at UCLA.

UCLA admitted 12,215 for the fall 2006 freshman class from among the record 47,300 applications received. There were 4,928 students who responded to UCLA's offers of admission indicating their plans to enroll.

The data show that the overall number of underrepresented students — Native Americans, African Americans and Chicanos/Latinos — declined slightly. The number of African American students who said they plan to enroll as freshmen at UCLA was 95, down from 126 last year.

"The low number of African American students who have stated their intentions to enroll at UCLA has reached crisis proportion," UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale said. "It must be understood that there are no easy solutions. As you know, Proposition 209 prohibits the use of ethnicity or race in outreach or admissions decisions. But, we need to do everything we can within the law to address this crisis."

For more information about the decline in African American admissions, go to http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=7108.

Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) is an interim step in the overall application, admission and enrollment cycle. An admitted student submits an SIR following admission to signal his or her intent to accept the admission offer and enroll at UCLA. Final enrollment figures for the fall term typically are available in January of the following year.

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