Messiah College - 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
  1	Secondary School Record
  2	Class Rank
  4	School's Recommendation
  3	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
  I	Extracurricular participation
  C	Particular talent or ability
  N	Geographical distribution
  N	Alumni/ae relationship

High School GPA and Class Rank

• The average high school/secondary school Grade Point Average for freshmen stood at 3.7.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	60%
  Second fifth	28%
  Third fifth	2%
  Unknown	10%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• All freshmen scores reported used the old scoring system.
• The following scores do not include Special program students.
• 98% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 15% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• The recent adjustment to the SAT I scoring system has affected the school's admission policy: Minimum SAT I requirement was adjusted accordingly.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 90%, SAT math scores over 500 92%, ACT scores over 18 98%, SAT verbal scores over 600 46%, SAT math scores over 600 47%, ACT scores over 24 70%, SAT verbal scores over 700 11%, SAT math scores over 700 8%, ACT scores over 30 17%

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

  Score	English	Math	Composite
  31-36	n/a	n/a	9%
  26-30	n/a	n/a	33%
  21-25	n/a	n/a	42%
  19-20	n/a	n/a	16%