University of Charleston - 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
  5	Class Rank
  4	School's Recommendation
  2	Standardized Test Scores
  3	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
  C	Particular talent or ability
  N	Geographical distribution
  C	Alumni/ae relationship

High School GPA and Class Rank for 1993

• The average high school/secondary school Grade Point Average for freshmen stood at 3.081.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	48%
  Second fifth	26%
  Third fifth	17%
  Fourth fifth	7%
  Bottom fifth	2%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• 16% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 71% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 50%, SAT math scores over 500 41%, ACT scores over 18 84%, SAT verbal scores over 600 7%, SAT math scores over 600 13%, ACT scores over 24 20%, SAT verbal scores over 700 1%, SAT math scores over 700 0%, ACT scores over 30 1%

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

  Score	English	Math	Composite
  30-36	1%	1%	1%
  24-29	28%	12%	20%
  18-23	52%	60%	67%
  12-17	19%	27%	12%