Gardner-Webb University - 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
  I	Character and Personality
  I	Extracurricular participation
  I	Particular talent or ability
  N	Geographical distribution
  N	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	30%
  Second fifth	24%
  Third fifth	18%
  Fourth fifth	11%
  Bottom fifth	4%
  Unknown	13%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• All freshmen scores reported used the old scoring system.
• 91% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 9% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 59%, SAT math scores over 500 56%, ACT scores over 18 80%, SAT verbal scores over 600 18%, SAT math scores over 600 17%, ACT scores over 24 28%, SAT verbal scores over 700 3%, SAT math scores over 700 1%, ACT scores over 30 0%