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NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF HOME APPLICATIONS AND NUMBER OF ACCEPTANCES AND PERCENTAGE SUCCESS RATE BY ETHNIC ORIGIN

Table 7. NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF HOME APPLICATIONS AND NUMBER OF ACCEPTANCES AND PERCENTAGE SUCCESS RATE BY ETHNIC ORIGIN

MEN AND WOMEN

	2001				2000
	Applications		Acceptances		Applications		Acceptances
	No.	% of Total	No.	% success rate	No.	% of Total	No.	% success rate
Bangladeshi	38	0.4	5	13	31	0.3	4	13
Chinese	181	2.0	60	33	199	2.0	65	33
Indian	322	3.6	86	27	333	4.1	97	29
Pakistani	97	1.1	22	23	76	0.8	17	22
Other Asian	143	1.6	48	34	156	1.8	38	24
Black Caribbean	23	0.3	2	9	17	0.1	5	29
Black African	67	0.7	8	12	65	0.6	6	9
Black Other	6	0.1	2	33	15	0.2	1	7
White	7,108	79.1	2,490	35	7,711	80.1	2,411	31
Other	299	3.3	103	34	205	2.1	64	31
Not provided	698	7.8	146	21	819	8.5	154	19
Total	8,982		2,972		9,627		2,862

MEN

	2001				2000
	Applications		Acceptances		Applications		Acceptances
	No.	% of Total	No.	% success rate	No.	% of Total	No.	% success rate
Bangladeshi	20	0.4	2	10	22	0.4	2	9
Chinese	99	2.1	31	31	115	2.2	40	35
Indian	196	4.2	51	26	210	4.1	63	33
Pakistani	60	1.3	15	25	42	0.8	8	19
Other Asian	78	1.7	28	36	91	1.6	25	27
Black Caribbean	8	0.2	1	13	7	0.1	2	28
Black African	31	0.7	4	13	33	0.6	1	3
Black Other	2	-	1	50	5	0.1	1	20
White	3,730	79.0	1,275	34	3,998	79.3	1,222	31
Other	156	3.3	53	34	98	1.9	28	29
Not provided	342	7.2	78	23	420	8.3	88	21
Total	4,722		1,539		5,041		1,480

WOMEN

	2001				2000
	Applications		Acceptances		Applications		Acceptances
	No.	% of Total	No.	% success rate	No.	% of Total	No.	% success rate
Bangladeshi	18	0.4	3	17	9	0.2	2	22
Chinese	82	1.9	29	35	84	1.8	25	30
Indian	126	3.0	35	28	123	2.6	34	28
Pakistani	37	0.9	7	19	34	0.7	9	26
Other Asian	65	1.5	20	31	65	1.4	13	20
Black Caribbean	15	0.4	1	7	10	0.2	3	30
Black African	36	0.8	4	11	32	0.7	5	16
Black Other	4	0.1	1	25	10	0.2	0	-
White	3,378	79.3	1,215	36	3,713	80.9	1,189	32
Other	143	3.4	50	35	107	2.3	36	33
Not provided	356	8.4	68	19	399	8.7	66	17
Total	4,260		1,433		4,586		1,382

For 2001, 'White ' includes White-British, White-Irish, Other White background. 'Other' includes other mixed backgrounds, and other ethnicity. 'Not provided' includes students who did not give an ethnicity, and also includes some students who are domiciled overseas.

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Cambridge University Reporter Special, 7 December 2001
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