Rochester Institute of Technology - 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
  5	School's Recommendation
  2	Standardized Test Scores
  4	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
  C	Geographical distribution
  I	Alumni/ae relationship

High School GPA and Class Rank

• The average high school/secondary school Grade Point Average for freshmen stood at 3.70.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	50%
  Second fifth	29%
  Third fifth	12%
  Fourth fifth	7%
  Bottom fifth	2%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• All freshmen scores reported used the old scoring system.
• The following scores do not include Freshmen transfers.
• 93% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 20% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• The recent adjustment to the SAT I scoring system has affected the school's admission policy: Contact the school directly.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 88%, SAT math scores over 500 96%, ACT scores over 18 100%, SAT verbal scores over 600 45%, SAT math scores over 600 63%, ACT scores over 24 74%, SAT verbal scores over 700 8%, SAT math scores over 700 15%, ACT scores over 30 17%

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

  Score	English	Math	Composite
  30-36	n/a	n/a	16%
  24-29	n/a	n/a	47%
  18-23	n/a	n/a	34%
  12-17	n/a	n/a	3%