Eastern College - 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
  4	Secondary School Record
  1	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
  I	Alumni/ae relationship

High School GPA and Class Rank

• The average high school/secondary school Grade Point Average for freshmen stood at 3.29.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	20%
  Second fifth	18%
  Third fifth	11%
  Fourth fifth	4%
  Bottom fifth	2%
  Unknown	45%

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 3% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• The recent adjustment to the SAT I scoring system has affected the school's admission policy: Admissions formula was changed.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 78%, SAT math scores over 500 70%, ACT scores over 18 94%, SAT verbal scores over 600 32%, SAT math scores over 600 26%, ACT scores over 24 41%, SAT verbal scores over 700 8%, SAT math scores over 700 2%

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

  Score	English	Math	Composite
  24-29	n/a	n/a	38%
  18-23	n/a	n/a	50%
  12-17	n/a	n/a	12%