Canisius 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
  1	Secondary School Record
  2	Class Rank
  4	School's Recommendation
  3	Standardized Test Scores
  5	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
  I	Extracurricular participation
  I	Particular talent or ability
  N	Geographical distribution
  C	Alumni/ae relationship

High School GPA and Class Rank

• The average high school/secondary school Grade Point Average for freshmen stood at 3.2.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	38%
  Second fifth	28%
  Third fifth	19%
  Fourth fifth	11%
  Bottom fifth	1%
  Unknown	3%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• All freshmen scores reported used the old scoring system.
• The following scores do not include Nontraditional/Part-time students.
• The following scores do not include Special program students.
• 96% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 33% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• The recent adjustment to the SAT I scoring system has affected the school's admission policy: Adjustments were made to include the recentered scores.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 69%, SAT math scores over 500 74%, ACT scores over 18 92%, SAT verbal scores over 600 23%, SAT math scores over 600 28%, ACT scores over 24 46%, SAT verbal scores over 700 2%, SAT math scores over 700 3%, ACT scores over 30 10%

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

  Score	English	Math	Composite
  31-35	n/a	n/a	6%
  25-30	n/a	n/a	34%
  19-24	n/a	n/a	55%
  13-18	n/a	n/a	5%