University of Colorado at Boulder - 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
  4	School's Recommendation
  3	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
  E	Geographical distribution
  E	Alumni/ae relationship

High School GPA and Class Rank

• The average high school/secondary school Grade Point Average for freshmen stood at 3.47.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	48%
  Second fifth	35%
  Third fifth	14%
  Fourth fifth	3%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• 76% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 66% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 86%, SAT math scores over 500 89%, ACT scores over 18 99%, SAT verbal scores over 600 37%, SAT math scores over 600 47%, ACT scores over 24 65%, SAT verbal scores over 700 5%, SAT math scores over 700 8%, ACT scores over 30 10%

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

  Score	English	Math	Composite
  30-36	n/a	n/a	10%
  26-29	n/a	n/a	34%
  21-25	n/a	n/a	46%
  16-20	n/a	n/a	10%