Hobart and William Smith Colleges - 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
  4	Class Rank
  3	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
  I	Extracurricular participation
  I	Particular talent or ability
  C	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 3.26.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	51%
  Second fifth	31%
  Third fifth	13%
  Fourth fifth	4%
  Bottom fifth	1%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• Scores reported below use the new scoring system.
• The following scores do not include Special program 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 87%, SAT math scores over 500 88%, SAT verbal scores over 600 37%, SAT math scores over 600 36%, SAT verbal scores over 700 4%, SAT math scores over 700 3%