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Date of Submission: April 16th, 2021

University Enrollment Prediction

The role of developing a predictive model was assigned to the Office of
Institutional Research, with the Office of Enrollment Management serving as a
consultant on the project. The Office of Institutional Research created and managed
a data warehouse that held enrollment data for the previous six years. It was
determined that the Fall 2004 inquiries would be used to create a blueprint that
would help form the Fall 2005 freshman class. In collaboration with Enrollment
Management, the data set Inq2005 was created over a period of several months.
Demographic, financial, number of correspondences, student interests, and campus
visits were among the variables in the data collection. Using historical data and
patterns, several variables were developed. For example, the percentage of inquirers
from that high school who enrolled over the previous five years replaced the high
school code. Over 90,000 measurements and 50 variables were included in the final
data collection. The number of variables in this case study was decreased. The
Inq2005 data set is available in the AAEM library, and the variables are mentioned in
the table below. The number of missing values in some of the variables caused them
to be automatically rejected.
Since the nominal variables ACADEMIC INTEREST 1, ACADEMIC INTEREST 2,
and IRSCHOOL were replaced by the interval variables INT1RAT, INT2RAT, and
HSCRAT, respectively, they were rejected. Academic interest codes 1 and 2 were
replaced, for example, by the percentage of inquirers who reported certain interest
codes and then enrolled over the previous five years. The vector IRSCHOOL used to
be the student's high school code, but it was replaced by the percentage of inquirers
from that high school who enrolled in the last five years. Since they cannot be
included in admission decisions, the variables ETHNICITY and SEX were eliminated.
Several variables monitor the university's different forms of interactions with
students.