This sheet provides a list of 2017 admission statistics of each major college in the US. The data is taken from the Common Data Set which is sourced directly from contributing US colleges and universities. Data is used by most institutions of Higher Education including the College Board, Peterson’s Guides, and U.S. News & World Report, to facilitate comparisons among institutions.  The data includes:


- Admittance ratio = number of applicants admitted as degree-seeking, first-time, first-year divided by number of applicants as degree-     seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman).

- Average high school GPA on 4.0 scale for degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students

- Average SAT Critical Reading (formerly Verbal) score for all enrolled full-time and part-time first-year degree-seeking students 

- Average SAT Math score for all enrolled full-time and part-time first-year degree-seeking students

- Average Composite SAT score = Average SAT CR Score + Average Math Score for all enrolled full-time and part-time first-year
  degree-seeking students

- Average ACT Composite Score for all enrolled full-time and part-time first-year degree-seeking students 

- Score of enrolled degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students at the 25th Percentile on the SAT Critical Reading

- Score of enrolled degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students at the 75th Percentile on the SAT Critical Reading 

- Score of enrolled degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students at the 25th Percentile on the SAT Math 

- Score of enrolled degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students at the 75th Percentile on the SAT Math

- SAT Composite score of enrolled degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students at the 25th percentile

- SAT Composite score of enrolled degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students at the 75th percentile

- Score of enrolled first-time, first-year degree-seeking (freshman) students at the 25th Percentile on the ACT Composite

- Score of enrolled first-time, first-year degree-seeking (freshman) students at the 75th Percentile on the ACT Composite