Portland State 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
  N	Class Rank
  N	School's Recommendation
  2	Standardized Test Scores
  N	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
  N	Extracurricular participation
  N	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 3.1.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	40%
  Second fifth	50%
  Third fifth	10%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• Scores reported below include some using the old scoring system which have been recentered.
• 80% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 12% 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 56%, ACT scores over 18 87%, SAT verbal scores over 600 22%, SAT math scores over 600 18%, ACT scores over 24 34%, SAT verbal scores over 700 3%, SAT math scores over 700 2%, 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	2%
  24-29	n/a	n/a	23%
  18-23	n/a	n/a	53%
  12-17	n/a	n/a	22%