United States Coast Guard Academy - Admission Criteria

• Academic ranking criteria for this college is listed below. Academic criteria are ranked in order of importance from 1 (Most important) through 5 (Least important) or N (Not relevant).

  Rank	Criterion
  3	Secondary School Record
  2	Class Rank
  4	School's Recommendation
  1	Standardized Test Scores
  5	Essay

• The following non-academic criteria are indicated as E (Emphasized), I (Important), C Considered, or N (Not relevant).

  Rank	Criterion
  E	Character and Personality
  E	Extracurricular participation
  C	Particular talent or ability
  N	Geographical distribution
  C	Alumni/ae relationship

High School GPA and Class Rank

• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Accumulative Percent
  Top 5%	35%
  Top tenth	73%
  Top quarter	98%
  Top half	100%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• All freshmen scores reported used the old scoring system.
• The following scores do not include International students.
• 90% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 53% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• The recent adjustment to the SAT I scoring system has affected the school's admission policy: Contact the school directly.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 98%, SAT math scores over 500 100%, ACT scores over 18 100%, SAT verbal scores over 600 63%, SAT math scores over 600 78%, ACT scores over 24 91%, SAT verbal scores over 700 12%, SAT math scores over 700 21%, ACT scores over 30 30%

• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the ACT:

  Score	English	Math	Composite
  30-36	14%	23%	n/a
  24-29	58%	67%	n/a
  18-23	26%	9%	n/a
  12-17	2%	1%	n/a