It was a stomach-churning summer for University of Cincinnati officials as freshman confirmations slumped.

        Before the April riots, the confirmations at the city-center school were 12.5 percent ahead the record set last year.

        By July 1, that had fallen to 4 percent before bottoming out Aug. 1 at 3 percent.

        Student confirmations “popped up a little bit in late August to 4 percent,” Stanley Henderson, associate vice president for enrollment management, said Friday.

        His relief was tangible as confirmations became record-setting registrations.

        Mr. Henderson said registrations were 5.1 percent ahead of last year's record 5,000 freshmen, with more to come by the start of classes Sept. 20.

        UC was untouched by the April 9-12 protests and riots that erupted after Timothy Thomas, an unarmed black man, was fatally shot while fleeing a police officer in Over-the-Rhine. But prospective students and their parents knew it was a city-center school.

        “The civil disturbance could not have occurred at a worse time,” Mr. Henderson said, because that was when most traditional freshmen pick their college.

        Mr. Henderson said there probably will be a slightly higher percentage of African-American freshmen than last year, when they represented 17 percent of the entering class.

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