State law requires that the percentage of students from North Carolina in each freshman class meet or exceed 82%.[96] The student body consists of 17,981 undergraduate students and 10,935 graduate and professional students (as of Fall 2009).[97] Racial and ethnic minorities comprise 30.8% of UNC-Chapel Hill's undergraduate population as of 2010[98] and applications from international students have more than doubled in the last five years (from 702 in 2004 to 1,629 in 2009).[99] Eighty-nine percent of enrolling first year students in 2009 reported a GPA of 4.0 or higher on a weighted 4.0 scale.[100] UNC-Chapel Hill students are strong competitors for national and international scholarships.