C. FRESHMAN ADMISSION POLICIES

Applications

C1. First-time, first-year (freshman) students: Provide the number of degree-seeking students who applied, were admitted, and enrolled (full- or part-time) in fall 2001. Include early decision, early action, and students who began studies during summer in this cohort. Applicants include all students who fulfilled the requirements for consideration for admission (including payment or waiving of the application fee, if any) and who have been notified of one of the following actions: admission, nonadmission, placement on waiting list, or application withdrawn (by applicant or institution). Admitted applicants should include wait-listed students who were subsequently offered admission.
 
 

C2. Freshman wait-listed students (students who met admission requirements but whose final admission was contingent on space availability)
   

Admission Requirements

C3. High school completion requirement

Check the appropriate box to identify your high school completion requirement for degree-seeking entering students

[X] High school diploma is required and GED is accepted

[   ] High school diploma is required and GED is not accepted

[   ] High school diploma or equivalent is not required

C4. Does your institution require or recommend a general college preparatory program for degree-seeking students?

[X] Required

[   ] Recommended

[   ] Neither required nor recommended

C5. Distribution of high school units required and/or recommended. Specify the distribution of academic high school course units required and/or recommended of all or most degree-seeking students using Carnegie units (one unit equals one year of study or its equivalent). If you use a different system for calculating units, please convert.  

Basis for Selection

C6. Do you have an open admission policy, under which virtually all secondary school graduates or students with GED equivalency diplomas are admitted without regard to academic record, test scores, or other qualifications? No

C7. Relative importance of each of the following academic and nonacademic factors in your first-time, first- year, degree-seeking (freshman) admission decisions.  

SAT and ACT Policies

C8. Entrance exams

A. Does your institution make use of SAT I, SAT II, or ACT scores in admission decisions for first-time, first-year,
     degree-seeking applicants?  

If yes, place check marks in the appropriate boxes below to reflect your institution�s policies for use in admission.

B. Does your institution use applicants' test scores for placement or counseling?  

Provide percentages for ALL enrolled degree-seeking full-time and part-time, first-time, first-year (freshman) students enrolled in fall 2001, including students who began studies during summer, international students/nonresident aliens, and students admitted under special arrangements.

C9. Percent and number of first-time, first-year (freshman) students enrolled in fall 2001 who submitted national standardized (SAT/ACT) test scores. Include information for ALL enrolled, first-time, first-year (freshman) degree-seeking students who submitted test scores. Do not include partial test scores (e.g., mathematics scores but not verbal for a category of students) or combine other standardized test results (such as TOEFL) in this item. SAT scores should be re-centered scores. The 25th percentile is the score that 25 percent scored at or below; the 75th percentile score is the one that 25 percent scored at or above.  

Percent of first-time, first-year (freshman) students with scores in each range: 

For our traditionally admitted students (excluding those students who enrolled in special admission programs), the following SAT-Score profile applies:
 

Percent of first-time, first-year traditionally admitted (freshman) students with scores in each range:
 

C10. Percent of all degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who had high school class rank within each of the following ranges (report information for those students from whom you collected high school rank information).  

Percent of total first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted high school class rank: 81%

 C12. Average high school GPA of all degree-seeking first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted GPA: 3.53 Percent of total first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted high school GPA: 99%

 Admission Policies

C13. Application fee

C14. Application closing date

C15. Are first-time, first-year students accepted for terms other than the fall?

C16. Notification to applicants of admission decision sent (fill in one only)

C17. Reply policy for admitted applicants (fill in one only)

C18. Deferred admission:

C19. Early admission of high school students:

C20. Common application:

Early Decision and Early Action Plans

C21. Early decision:
Does your institution offer an early decision plan (an admission plan that permits students to apply and be notified of an admission decision well in advance of the regular notification date and that asks students to commit to attending if accepted) for first-time, first-year (freshman) applicants for fall enrollment?
 

Please provide significant details about your early decision plan :
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C22. Early action: Do you have a nonbinding early action plan whereby students are notified of an admission decision well in advance of the regular notification date but do not have to commit to attending your college?
 

If "yes," please complete the following :
Early action closing date December 1
Early action notification date Prior to January 1
 

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