University of California, Riverside - 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
  3	Class Rank
  5	School's Recommendation
  2	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
  N	Character and Personality
  I	Extracurricular participation
  I	Particular talent or ability
  C	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 3.63.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	95%
  Second fifth	5%

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 29% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 53%, SAT math scores over 500 74%, ACT scores over 18 81%, SAT verbal scores over 600 17%, SAT math scores over 600 34%, ACT scores over 24 27%, SAT verbal scores over 700 2%, SAT math scores over 700 7%, ACT scores over 30 3%

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

  Score	English	Math	Composite
  30-36	n/a	n/a	4%
  24-29	n/a	n/a	28%
  18-23	n/a	n/a	51%
  12-17	n/a	n/a	17%