Mount Holyoke 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
  4	Standardized Test Scores
  3	Essay

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

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

High School GPA and Class Rank

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

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	84%
  Second fifth	16%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• All freshmen scores reported used the old scoring system.
• 97% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 2% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 98%, SAT math scores over 500 97%, ACT scores over 18 99%, SAT verbal scores over 600 77%, SAT math scores over 600 65%, ACT scores over 24 86%, SAT verbal scores over 700 22%, SAT math scores over 700 13%, ACT scores over 30 26%