Southern Wesleyan 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
  2	Class Rank
  3	School's Recommendation
  4	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
  E	Character and Personality
  N	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 2.8.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	25%
  Second fifth	18%
  Third fifth	31%
  Fourth fifth	18%
  Bottom fifth	8%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• Scores reported below use the new scoring system.
• 85% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 6% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 61%, SAT math scores over 500 53%, ACT scores over 18 72%, SAT verbal scores over 600 11%, SAT math scores over 600 13%, ACT scores over 24 19%, SAT verbal scores over 700 0%, SAT math scores over 700 1%, ACT scores over 30 0%