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Academic preparation of freshman - Applicants by college 1999 - 2009

See explanatory notes
- Pct in top x% of HS class calculated using cases with non-missing HS rank
- CU predicted GPA is primarily a function of HS GPA. Calculation is specific to college.
- CCHE index is a function of test scores and HS GPA/rank

Also see data from - 1988 - 1998 || 1999 - 2009 || 2010 - present

Arch. & Planning

Applicants	Fall of
Applicants	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	397	422	517	541	633	587	395	402	345	397	316
No high school rank	34%	35%	27%	26%	30%	31%	26%	33%	30%	35%	39%
Top 10% of HS class	23%	20%	19%	20%	26%	24%	23%	28%	23%	27%	23%
Top 20% of HS class	43%	43%	41%	42%	48%	43%	45%	47%	45%	50%	49%
Top 25% of HS class	51%	52%	48%	53%	56%	54%	53%	54%	56%	60%	60%
Top 50% of HS class	87%	88%	84%	86%	90%	83%	87%	89%	93%	91%	90%
Avg high school percentile rank	73.0	72.9	70.2	71.8	74.7	71.8	72.1	73.9	74.5	76.1	75.3
High school GPA	3.37	3.40	3.37	3.43	3.48	3.45	3.51	3.52	3.48	3.58	3.55
SAT-high single adm	1138	1133	1149	1154	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
SAT-high components	.	.	.	1161	1163	1152	1171	1164	1164	1171	1176
ACT-high single adm	24.3	24.0	24.0	24.6	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
ACT-high components	.	.	.	24.8	24.7	24.7	24.8	25.0	25.0	25.9	26.6
Predicted CU GPA	2.80	2.81	2.80	2.84	2.89	2.90	2.95	2.96	2.93	3.04	3.03
CCHE index-Original	108.8	109.0	109.0	110.1	111.7	110.8	.	.	.	.	.
CCHE index-2004 revision	.	.	.	.	.	114.0	115.1	115.4	115.0	118.0	118.1

Arts & Sciences

Applicants	Fall of
Applicants	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	10,280	10,909	13,126	13,569	15,081	13,492	11,784	12,798	14,052	16,278	13,814
No high school rank	38%	38%	34%	35%	35%	36%	37%	41%	42%	46%	46%
Top 10% of HS class	23%	22%	21%	22%	22%	23%	24%	22%	21%	22%	23%
Top 20% of HS class	43%	41%	41%	40%	41%	44%	43%	40%	41%	41%	42%
Top 25% of HS class	51%	50%	50%	49%	50%	53%	52%	49%	50%	51%	51%
Top 50% of HS class	85%	83%	84%	83%	84%	85%	85%	85%	85%	85%	86%
Avg high school percentile rank	71.8	71.1	71.1	70.9	71.0	72.4	72.0	71.2	71.4	71.7	72.1
High school GPA	3.33	3.37	3.39	3.40	3.42	3.45	3.46	3.44	3.44	3.44	3.46
SAT-high single adm	1153	1153	1155	1155	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
SAT-high components	.	.	.	1162	1174	1178	1180	1168	1165	1167	1171
ACT-high single adm	24.4	24.6	24.5	24.5	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
ACT-high components	.	.	.	24.7	24.9	25.1	25.1	25.0	25.2	25.5	25.7
Predicted CU GPA	2.80	2.83	2.84	2.84	2.87	2.93	2.93	2.91	2.91	2.92	2.94
CCHE index-Original	108.9	109.8	110.1	110.2	111.1	112.0	.	.	.	.	.
CCHE index-2004 revision	.	.	.	.	.	115.1	115.0	114.0	114.2	114.6	115.3

Business

Applicants	Fall of
Applicants	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	1,889	2,027	2,423	2,557	2,681	2,759	2,603	2,433	2,637	3,175	2,600
No high school rank	39%	39%	34%	35%	39%	39%	41%	43%	44%	46%	46%
Top 10% of HS class	22%	22%	20%	20%	23%	22%	19%	25%	24%	29%	28%
Top 20% of HS class	43%	45%	44%	43%	44%	45%	41%	48%	49%	53%	53%
Top 25% of HS class	54%	55%	53%	54%	55%	56%	53%	61%	58%	63%	64%
Top 50% of HS class	85%	88%	85%	85%	87%	87%	86%	89%	86%	88%	90%
Avg high school percentile rank	72.0	73.0	72.0	71.5	72.9	73.1	71.8	74.7	73.5	75.7	76.7
High school GPA	3.34	3.42	3.43	3.44	3.47	3.47	3.48	3.53	3.51	3.55	3.58
SAT-high single adm	1145	1159	1154	1159	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
SAT-high components	.	.	.	1166	1181	1186	1185	1176	1175	1187	1189
ACT-high single adm	24.3	24.7	24.6	24.7	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
ACT-high components	.	.	.	24.9	25.2	25.3	25.3	25.3	25.7	26.0	26.4
Predicted CU GPA	2.79	2.86	2.85	2.87	2.90	3.01	3.01	3.05	3.04	3.08	3.11
CCHE index-Original	108.7	111.0	110.8	111.6	112.8	113.1	.	.	.	.	.
CCHE index-2004 revision	.	.	.	.	.	116.1	115.9	116.6	116.4	117.9	118.8

Engineering

Applicants	Fall of
Applicants	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	1,812	1,874	2,127	2,170	2,195	2,192	2,020	2,092	2,394	2,705	2,506
No high school rank	30%	31%	27%	25%	27%	27%	29%	34%	31%	35%	36%
Top 10% of HS class	45%	43%	39%	43%	42%	43%	41%	42%	43%	47%	48%
Top 20% of HS class	68%	65%	63%	64%	64%	65%	64%	66%	65%	69%	70%
Top 25% of HS class	75%	75%	73%	73%	72%	74%	73%	76%	74%	77%	78%
Top 50% of HS class	95%	95%	94%	94%	94%	95%	94%	95%	94%	93%	95%
Avg high school percentile rank	82.5	81.9	81.0	81.3	81.0	82.3	81.3	82.6	81.6	82.4	83.8
High school GPA	3.57	3.60	3.60	3.63	3.65	3.67	3.66	3.69	3.69	3.70	3.73
SAT-high single adm	1252	1242	1246	1249	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
SAT-high components	.	.	.	1255	1266	1270	1264	1264	1262	1279	1285
ACT-high single adm	26.9	27.0	26.8	26.9	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
ACT-high components	.	.	.	27.1	27.3	27.5	27.3	27.7	27.6	28.1	28.7
Predicted CU GPA	2.89	2.91	2.92	2.94	2.97	2.92	2.90	2.94	2.92	2.96	3.00
CCHE index-Original	119.6	119.7	119.9	120.5	121.3	122.2	.	.	.	.	.
CCHE index-2004 revision	.	.	.	.	.	124.1	123.3	124.3	123.8	125.0	126.5

Journalism

Applicants	Fall of
Applicants	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	103	119	83	67
No high school rank	19%	19%	14%	30%
Top 10% of HS class	58%	56%	75%	66%
Top 20% of HS class	88%	89%	97%	89%
Top 25% of HS class	95%	95%	99%	96%
Top 50% of HS class	100%	100%	100%	100%
Avg high school percentile rank	89.7	89.4	92.8	90.7
High school GPA	3.90	3.92	3.97	3.94
SAT-high single adm	.	.	.	.
SAT-high components	1278	1277	1299	1300
ACT-high single adm	.	.	.	.
ACT-high components	28.8	28.7	29.8	29.9
Predicted CU GPA	3.42	3.44	3.52	3.49
CCHE index-Original	.	.	.	.
CCHE index-2004 revision	129.3	129.9	132.8	131.9

Music

Applicants	Fall of
Applicants	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	178	221	185	211	223	229	200	233	181	209	197
No high school rank	34%	30%	29%	25%	30%	26%	25%	27%	32%	30%	40%
Top 10% of HS class	25%	30%	28%	25%	29%	21%	26%	26%	24%	30%	17%
Top 20% of HS class	48%	49%	49%	51%	50%	40%	42%	47%	41%	46%	43%
Top 25% of HS class	58%	52%	56%	56%	59%	47%	53%	53%	46%	55%	51%
Top 50% of HS class	86%	84%	85%	87%	85%	81%	85%	84%	77%	82%	85%
Avg high school percentile rank	74.6	72.1	73.0	73.5	73.4	69.4	71.9	73.0	68.5	72.0	70.6
High school GPA	3.41	3.42	3.46	3.45	3.50	3.41	3.52	3.50	3.46	3.47	3.52
SAT-high single adm	1179	1160	1185	1139	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
SAT-high components	.	.	.	1142	1183	1149	1203	1208	1187	1208	1212
ACT-high single adm	25.2	25.3	25.4	24.8	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
ACT-high components	.	.	.	25.0	25.3	25.1	25.6	25.7	25.7	25.7	25.9
Predicted CU GPA	3.16	3.15	3.21	3.14	3.21	3.10	3.22	3.21	3.18	3.20	3.24
CCHE index-Original	111.9	111.6	113.3	111.2	113.0	110.4	.	.	.	.	.
CCHE index-2004 revision	.	.	.	.	.	113.9	117.3	116.8	116.0	116.7	117.6

All

Applicants	Fall of
Applicants	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	14,556	15,453	18,378	19,048	20,813	19,259	17,002	18,061	19,728	22,847	19,500
No high school rank	37%	37%	33%	33%	35%	35%	36%	40%	41%	44%	44%
Top 10% of HS class	26%	25%	23%	24%	25%	26%	25%	25%	25%	27%	27%
Top 20% of HS class	46%	45%	44%	44%	44%	47%	45%	45%	46%	47%	48%
Top 25% of HS class	55%	54%	53%	53%	53%	56%	55%	54%	55%	56%	57%
Top 50% of HS class	86%	86%	86%	85%	85%	87%	86%	87%	87%	86%	88%
Avg high school percentile rank	73.4	72.8	72.5	72.3	72.6	73.7	73.2	73.3	73.3	73.9	74.6
High school GPA	3.36	3.41	3.42	3.43	3.45	3.48	3.49	3.48	3.48	3.49	3.51
SAT-high single adm	1164	1164	1166	1167	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
SAT-high components	.	.	.	1173	1185	1189	1191	1181	1179	1184	1190
ACT-high single adm	24.7	24.9	24.8	24.8	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
ACT-high components	.	.	.	25.0	25.2	25.4	25.4	25.4	25.6	25.9	26.3
Predicted CU GPA	2.81	2.84	2.85	2.86	2.89	2.94	2.94	2.94	2.94	2.95	2.98
CCHE index-Original	110.2	111.1	111.3	111.5	112.4	113.3	.	.	.	.	.
CCHE index-2004 revision	.	.	.	.	.	116.2	116.1	115.6	115.8	116.4	117.3

Source: SURDS UG applicant files -- may not match other records

Run Date 11/10/2011 -- L:\IR\emgt\ADM\qualcomp_thru20110831.sas

Last revision 11/10/11

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