Carthage 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
  3	Class Rank
  4	School's Recommendation
  2	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
  E	Character and Personality
  E	Extracurricular participation
  E	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 3.06.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	32%
  Second fifth	27%
  Third fifth	19%
  Fourth fifth	18%
  Bottom fifth	4%

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 Freshmen transfers.
• 18% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 95% 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 61%, SAT math scores over 500 56%, ACT scores over 18 88%, SAT verbal scores over 600 20%, SAT math scores over 600 25%, ACT scores over 24 35%, SAT verbal scores over 700 3%, SAT math scores over 700 5%, ACT scores over 30 6%

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

  Score	English	Math	Composite
  30-36	3%	5%	4%
  24-29	34%	25%	36%
  18-23	43%	49%	51%
  12-17	20%	20%	9%
  6-11	n/a	1%	n/a