California Maritime Academy - 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
  4	Class Rank
  5	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
  I	Particular talent or ability
  N	Geographical distribution
  N	Alumni/ae relationship

High School GPA and Class Rank

• The average high school/secondary school Grade Point Average for freshmen stood at 3.05.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Accumulative Percent
  Top tenth	10%
  Top quarter	21%
  Top half	62%
  Top three-quarters	97%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• All freshmen scores reported used the old scoring system.
• 80% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 8% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:

  Score	Verbal	Math
  700-800	n/a	2%
  600-699	6%	11%
  500-599	26%	42%
  400-499	38%	31%
  300-399	30%	14%