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UNLV brings in more freshman than ever before

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The UNLV school year has barely started, and it’s already one for the books. Though specific numbers, demographic analysis and matriculation figures won’t be available for another month given the natural early-semester student body fluctuation, enrollment has hit a record high: roughly 29,000 overall, or four to five percent higher than last year.

Even better, UNLV rep Tony Allen says the freshmen count is “slightly ahead of last year’s pace” at around 4,000 (2015’s final count was 3,744); new student enrollment, including transfers, is currently surpassing 2015’s 6,339 tally by about four percent; and the showing of Clark County residents among the entering class rose to 78 percent. “We do have an increase of local students choosing to come to UNLV,” Allen says. Which suggests that the only decrease UNLV might experience is in ... available parking.

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