Some mul tivadate statistical PJctho'!3 lp,'Ie boon employed in thisrnstudy. In particul(;l:, the method of pr:Jfite analysis have been used to /'rncompare tho performance of studonts jllo originated from Addis Ababa withrnthat of the remaining students who originated from other parts of Ethiopia.rnThe data, four semester grade point aV6rages (GPA's), collected from thernrecord office of the Faculty of Science of Addis Ababa University havernbeen used to test lihether difference in origin resulted in any realrndifference in performance between the two groups of students after thernThe stl',dy is primaril)" based 0'1 ',he s'~udGn':s from the Department ofrnStatistics who were e;,rolled ,',t the begining of the 1911.'82 academic yearrnand graduated by the end of the 1084/85 acadntic year for various reasons.rnBased on tile cliipedcal findin, .. , s:)mG ~:::;,tdUH" conclusions have been made