Covenant 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
  2	Secondary School Record
  N	Class Rank
  N	School's Recommendation
  1	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
  N	Character and Personality
  N	Extracurricular participation
  N	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 3.37.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	56%
  Second fifth	25%
  Third fifth	19%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• All freshmen scores reported used the old scoring system.
• 72% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 45% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• The recent adjustment to the SAT I scoring system has affected the school's admission policy: Minimum required SAT I score raised to 1000R from 900.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 92%, SAT math scores over 500 81%, ACT scores over 18 98%, SAT verbal scores over 600 49%, SAT math scores over 600 37%, ACT scores over 24 56%, SAT verbal scores over 700 17%, SAT math scores over 700 8%, ACT scores over 30 16%

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

  Score	English	Math	Composite
  29-36	n/a	n/a	27%
  24-28	n/a	n/a	35%
  18-23	n/a	n/a	38%