Between 75 and 80 percent of all entering students earn an appointment to the academy.

But only 7 percent of entering students in 2000-01 were girls.

That number rose from 11.6 percent of entering students in 1966.

The association had originally hoped to have 3,000 entering students by the year 2000.

Almost 25 percent of entering medical students last year said they preferred to be employees, seeing patients for a salary.

The number of spaces for entering students has remained constant at 165.

At that time entering students were not required to have even completed high school.

Blacks represented 8.1 percent of entering students at the university's law school in 1992.

The answer is free tuition for the upper 10 percent of entering students.

Perhaps that's why 51 percent of this year's entering students come from other countries, a 10 percent increase since 1993.