Houghton 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
  2	Class Rank
  5	School's Recommendation
  3	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
  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 3.4.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	54%
  Second fifth	31%
  Third fifth	8%
  Fourth fifth	6%
  Bottom fifth	1%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• Scores reported below include some using the old scoring system which have been recentered.
• 83% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 20% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• The recent adjustment to the SAT I scoring system has affected the school's admission policy: "Only to the degree that all recentered scores are fairly compared to the previous equivalent."
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 84%, SAT math scores over 500 81%, ACT scores over 18 96%, SAT verbal scores over 600 46%, SAT math scores over 600 39%, ACT scores over 24 62%, SAT verbal scores over 700 15%, SAT math scores over 700 7%, ACT scores over 30 20%

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

  Score	English	Math	Composite
  30-36	n/a	n/a	8%
  26-29	n/a	n/a	29%
  21-25	n/a	n/a	56%
  16-20	n/a	n/a	7%