Westfield State 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
  5	School's Recommendation
  3	Standardized Test Scores
  4	Essay

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

  Rank	Criterion
  C	Character and Personality
  I	Extracurricular participation
  I	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 2.7.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Accumulative Percent
  Top tenth	4%
  Top quarter	20%
  Top half	63%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• Scores reported below use the new scoring system.
• The following scores do not include Freshmen transfers.
• 90% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 0% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 58%, SAT math scores over 500 57%, SAT verbal scores over 600 12%, SAT math scores over 600 11%, SAT verbal scores over 700 0%, SAT math scores over 700 0%