Principia 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
  2	Secondary School Record
  5	Class Rank
  4	School's Recommendation
  3	Standardized Test Scores
  1	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
  C	Extracurricular participation
  C	Particular talent or ability
  N	Geographical distribution
  C	Alumni/ae relationship

High School GPA and Class Rank

• The average high school/secondary school Grade Point Average for freshmen stood at 3.137.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	31%
  Second fifth	31%
  Third fifth	19%
  Fourth fifth	9%
  Bottom fifth	7%
  Unknown	3%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• All freshmen scores reported used the old scoring system.
• The following scores do not include International students.
• 95% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 5% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 79%, SAT math scores over 500 81%, ACT scores over 18 96%, SAT verbal scores over 600 39%, SAT math scores over 600 36%, ACT scores over 24 55%, SAT verbal scores over 700 13%, SAT math scores over 700 4%, ACT scores over 30 21%