First-year enrollment down
Queen’s received 14,000 fewer applications from Ontario students for the 2004-2005 school year, now that the double-cohort surplus has squeezed through.
Minimum average entrance marks have remained high, however, with the majority of incoming students scoring in the region of 80 per cent or higher.
This year more than 25,000 prospective students vied for about 3,454 spaces, compared to the 39,000 hopefuls who applied last year.
First-year programs at the University are nearing their capacity, with only a few spots remaining in engineering, computing and at the International Study Centre.
The incoming class of 2008 breaks down into 57 per cent female and 43 per cent male students. The rise in female students continues the trend of recent years, however, male students still outweigh women in the faculties of engineering and computing.
Residence applications have also increased, with about 2.5 per cent more students requesting a bed on campus.
A total of about 72,300 high school applications were processed by the Ontario Universities Application Centre for the fall of 2004. A record-breaking 102,000 applications were received in 2003.
—With files from Queen’s Gazette
Name change for street and residences
Queen’s istration has renamed a portion of Queen’s Crescent and both Albert St. and Stuart St. residences.
A stretch of Queen’s Crescent from University Ave. to Albert St. was renamed Bader Lane, after generous donor Alfred Bader.
Bader purchased and gifted Herstmonceux Castle to the University and has also donated several pieces of art, including a Rembrandt last year.
He also founded Aldrich Chemical Company, which later became Sigma-Aldrich. The company is the 80th largest company in the United States.
The two new residences were both named after former Queen’s principals.
Albert St. residence was named Watts Hall, after Ronald Lampman Watts who served as principal from 1974-1984. Stuart St. residence was named Leggett Hall, after William Leggett, who served as principal from 1994-2004.
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