Framingham State 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
  N	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
  C	Extracurricular participation
  C	Particular talent or ability
  C	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 2.78.
• Following is a breakdown of the high school class rank of enrolled freshmen.

  Rank	Percent
  Top fifth	13%
  Second fifth	30%
  Third fifth	29%
  Fourth fifth	7%
  Bottom fifth	1%
  Unknown	20%

Standardized Test Score Criteria

• All freshmen scores reported used the old scoring system.
• The following scores do not include International students.
• The following scores do not include Nontraditional/Part-time students.
• The following scores do not include Freshmen transfers.
• 100% of accepted applicants submitted an SAT I score and 0% of accepted applicants submitted an ACT score.
• The recent adjustment to the SAT I scoring system has affected the school's admission policy: College's policy has not changed, but Massachusetts will be changing to a weighted GPA system for students entering as freshmen in fall 1997.
• Here are the scores of enrolled freshmen who took the SAT I:
  SAT verbal scores over 500 69%, SAT math scores over 500 59%, SAT verbal scores over 600 14%, SAT math scores over 600 9%, SAT verbal scores over 700 2%, SAT math scores over 700 1%