South Carolina State 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
  3	Class Rank
  4	School's Recommendation
  2	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
  C	Character and Personality
  C	Extracurricular participation
  C	Particular talent or ability
  N	Geographical distribution
  C	Alumni/ae relationship

High School GPA and Class Rank for 1993

• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	24%
  Second fifth	30%
  Third fifth	24%
  Fourth fifth	15%
  Bottom fifth	7%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• All freshmen scores reported used the old scoring system.
• The majority of accepted applicants took the ACT test.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 13%, SAT math scores over 500 17%, ACT scores over 18 50%, SAT verbal scores over 600 2%, SAT math scores over 600 3%, ACT scores over 24 2%, SAT math scores over 700 1%