Graceland 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
  3	Class Rank
  4	School's Recommendation
  2	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
  E	Extracurricular participation
  C	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 3.2.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Accumulative Percent
  Top tenth	18%
  Top quarter	48%
  Top half	77%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• Scores reported below include some using the old scoring system which have been recentered.
• The following scores do not include Nontraditional/Part-time students.
• The following scores do not include Freshmen transfers.
• 16% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 84% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score. SAT verbal scores over 500 52%, SAT math scores over 500 49%, ACT scores over 18 80%, SAT verbal scores over 600 24%, SAT math scores over 600 27%, ACT scores over 24 32%, SAT verbal scores over 700 9%, SAT math scores over 700 3%, ACT scores over 30 5%
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the ACT:

  Score	English	Math	Composite
  30-36	n/a	n/a	3%
  24-29	n/a	n/a	34%
  18-23	n/a	n/a	49%
  12-17	n/a	n/a	14%