AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 17, 2024

While the pandemic accelerated this decline starting in 2020, the reality is that college readiness has been on a downward trend for over a decade. Maintain a high GPA. Heres the truth: its way harder to recover a low GPA than it is to maintain a strong one from the start. Nationwide, students averaged 19.5

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AdmissionSight

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

On top of that, well cover key details like deadlines, GPA expectations, and tips to help your application stand out. 2020 32,122 13.2% 2021 Undisclosed Undisclosed 2020 29,455 11.0% 2021 Undisclosed Undisclosed 2020 2667 37.9% Target GPA While Northwestern doesnt officially set a minimum GPA, the standards are high.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 29, 2024

2020 6,855 553 8.1% Heres how to rise to their high standards: Target GPA Caltech doesnt publish a GPA cutoff, but the averages tell the story. Most admitted students have a GPA around 4.2 , boosted by weighted grades from advanced courses like AP or IB. A GPA of 4.2 2027 13,136 412 3.1% 2026 16,626 448 2.7%

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 20, 2025

2020 43,997 4.8% Even with high GPA and test scores, your chances may be slim if you dont excel in other areas they value. Stanford places weight on grades and GPA. Stanfords average GPA Admitted students have an average GPA of 3.9, 2026 56,378 3.7% 2025 55,471 3.9% 2024 45,227 5.2% 2023 47,498 4.3% 2022 47,451 4.4%

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AdmissionSight

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

2020 22.1% in 2020 to 14.4% Their recs can give the admissions team a real sense of who you are beyond your GPA. So, what GPA do you need? Brown doesnt officially publish recent GPA stats, but in past years, accepted students had an average GPA of around 3.9. 2027 13% 3.9% 2026 14.6% 2025 16% 4% 2024 17.5%

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 7, 2025

Good news for those of you who cringe at the thought of standardized tests: Northwestern has been test-optional since 2020, and theyre keeping it that way for students applying for fall 2025. The average GPA ? Its no surprise that Northwestern consistently ranks as one of the best colleges in the Midwest. A solid 3.76.

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 27, 2025

Heres what it takes to get in: Average GPA for UC Berkeley. For admitted freshmen, the middle 50% have a high school GPA ranging from 4.31 Or how about Jennifer Doudna, a co-recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry? What is the average GPA for UC Berkeley admissions? to 4.65 (weighted). ACT scores.

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AdmissionSight

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

2020 21,189 21.7% Target GPA Carnegie Mellon doesnt explicitly state a minimum GPA requirement, but lets be honestyoull be competing with some of the best students out there. According to Carnegie Mellons 2023-2024 Common Data Set , the average GPA for admitted students is an impressive 3.91 2027 33,707 11.4%

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AdmissionSight

MARCH 3, 2025

Back in 2020 (Class of 2024), the acceptance rate was 21.1%. Here are a few tips to help you shine: Target GPA NYU doesnt officially set a minimum GPA, but lets be honest, strong academics are a big deal. The average GPA for admitted students is around 3.7, If your GPA isnt quite there, dont stress.

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 19, 2024

2020 32,390 9% 2019 30,397 8.5% 2020 29,360 7.7% 2020 3,030 22.1% for the Class of 2020. Now, lets talk strategy: Target GPA Brown doesnt hand out exact GPA stats, but historically, admitted students have had an average GPA of around 3.9 And if your GPA isnt hitting that 3.9 2027 51,302 5.1%

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 14, 2025

But rank and GPA arent the only things that matter. From 2017 to 2020, up to 25% of applicants who were admitted to Penn Early Decision were legacies. Grades It shouldnt be surprising that Penn expects to see fabulous grades on an applicants transcript. Over 50% of the Class of 2028, in fact, was admitted Early Decision.

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 16, 2025

2023 23,974 6,189 26% 2022 24,930 5,961 24% 2021 28,457 5,435 19% 2020 25,957 6,271 24% UCLA transfer acceptance rates fluctuate per year. Academic preparation The average GPA of admitted UCLA transfer applicants is 3.5all of whom have also completed most or all major preparatory courses. Aim for a GPA above 3.5

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AdmissionSight

DECEMBER 3, 2024

2020 43,997 4.8% Target GPA Let’s be real: your GPA is one of the first things admissions officers will notice. According to Stanford’s Common Data Set for 2023-2024 , the average GPA of admitted students hovers around 3.9 If your GPA isn’t quite at that level, don’t panic. 2026 56,378 3.7% 2025 55,471 3.9%

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Top Tier Admissions

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The universitys decision marks a departure from the test-optional policy it implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021. PENNS RETURN TO REQUIRED TESTING Beginning with students applying for fall 2026 admission, Penn will once again require applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 15, 2025

This was down from 18% for the fall of 2023, and down from 26% for the fall of 2020. Most accepted students , 93%, have a GPA of 3.75 Accepted students with a GPA below 3.75 That doesnt mean that your GPA can be far below the norm, though. This is shown in the average high school GPA, as compared to the range.

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 7, 2025

To get in, youll need a GPA of around 4.17 2 regular season (1990, 2020) Women’s tennis. For example, in the 2019-2020 academic year, Northwestern had 8,069 international students representing 129 different countries. The university has a low acceptance rate of only 7.5% for the Class of 2028. 1997, 2006 Mens golf.

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Top Tier Admissions

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This year is the first in which the early decision admissions rate at Williams has increased since 2020, according to the Williams Record. WILLIAMS COLLEGE ACCEPTANCE RATE Williams received 964 applications to its Early Decision program and admitted 257 of them to the Class of 2029 for an acceptance rate of 26.6%.

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Top Tier Admissions

JUNE 6, 2025

Columbia’s Testing Policy states: “Based on an internal study encompassing multiple years of performance data, we found that test-optional admissions—which we provisionally introduced in 2020-2021 due to the pandemic—did not lead to a diminishment of the academic performance of our admitted classes or the academic success of our enrolled students.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 28, 2023

Application volume across the University of California’s nine campuses surged nearly 23% within the past three years alone, with university-wide first-year applications totaling a whopping 210,840 in Fall 2022, compared to 203,700 applications in 2021 and 172,099 in 2020. We’re talking about the A-G course requirements and the UC GPA.

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Ivy Central

APRIL 6, 2023

As COVID hit the world in the spring of 2020 so the standard orthodoxy around SAT or ACT testing went out of the window as colleges declared themselves Test Optional, meaning that students could choose if they wanted to submit test scores and that their chances of acceptance wouldn’t be impacted if they didn’t.

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College Kickstart

APRIL 19, 2020

We’ve enhanced our test-optional recommendation engine to help you better handle the growing list of schools going test-blind for the 2020-21 admission cycle. Entering 2020, less than five institutions in our coverage universe were test-blind. weighted GPA and top 5% class rank. Attention College Kickstart subscribers!

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Winning Ivy Prep

JUNE 16, 2020

Here, we’ll discuss important stats of admitted students — such as average SAT/ACT scores and GPA — helping you find out where you stand in the race to become a Bruin. GPA Range: 4.18 – 4.32. What Is The Average GPA To Get Into UCLA? UCLA’s fall 2019 admits had an average UC GPA of 4.24. . Psychology.

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ACM College Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2020

Here are three 2020 resolutions for high school students considering college. Seniors – Maintain or improve GPA By now many students at this stage in their high school careers have completed their applications, some even have decisions. A resolution for seniors at this time should be to maintain or improve their GPA.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Medical school acceptance rates by race Part 3: GPA and MCAT scores by race/ethnicity Part 4: Will race impact my admissions odds? Part 3: GPA and MCAT scores by race/ethnicity The controversy surrounding race and medical school admissions doesn’t stop at acceptance rates. GPA Science. GPA Science.

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BestColleges

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Data Summary Check Around 23% of college students were food insecure in 2020. [1] 1] Check Food insecurity intensified during COVID-19, with rates of hunger nearly doubling in some states in 2020. [2] 2] Check Food-insecure students had an average GPA of 3.33 while food-secure students had an average GPA of 3.51. [3]

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Students who hope to compete at the DI or DII level will still be required to maintain a minimum GPA for core-courses to be eligible. The NCAA has waived standardized test requirements in Division I sports since April 2020 due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. 11-14 in San Antonio, Texas. for DI schools and 2.2 for DII schools.

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Admissions Village

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to the Higher Education Research Institute’s Freshman Survey in 2020, 68.10% of first-year students at 4-year universities had an A or A- average in high school. GPA is not the same as a Pre-Covid 4.0. Grade inflation is real. I suspect the pandemic has only made grade inflation worse.

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StandOut College Prep

APRIL 18, 2023

The most critical factor in your college application is your grade point average or GPA. Your GPA can influence academic awards, college acceptance, scholarships, and financial aid. With more test-optional schools, colleges use your GPA to predict your chances for academic success. Most high schools only use the unweighted GPA.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

MAY 19, 2023

Discover the exact GPA and MCAT score to aim for to become a competitive applicant, plus MCAT percentiles What is a good mcat score? Check out our list of the average GPA and MCAT score of matriculants at every U.S. Adcoms use the combination of your MCAT score and your GPA to measure your ability to perform academically.

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Admissions Village

JULY 22, 2022

We used the year 2019 to start because the pandemic already caused a skew in the numbers for 2020. Second, from ACT’s blog A new report from ACT, the nonprofit organization that administers the ACT college readiness exam, finds evidence of grade inflation in high school seniors’ GPAs between 2010 and 2021. grade points, from 3.17

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Admissions Village

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Yale and Dartmouth both stated their belief, backed up by studies they have done, that scores are more predictive of academic success at college than high school GPA. Both colleges will start their new testing policy with current high school juniors, the university class of 2029.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 24, 2023

(Colgate saw a remarkable 102% increase in applications from the 2019-20 to 2020-21 admissions cycles and seems to still be riding that wave.) increase in applications between the 2020-21 and 2021-22 cycles and a decrease in acceptance rate from 8.74% to 6.93%; Pomona saw a 4.9%

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Given how much weight your GPA holds when applying to medical school, it’s no surprise that a low GPA (sub-3.5, To avoid that fate, here is some guidance to help you keep your GPA afloat: Expect to study hard! Will you be able to maintain a high GPA? Choose clusters carefully. We’ll discuss this more in just a moment.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Test-optional policies brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic account for the highly competitive 2020-21 admissions cycle. Princeton announced its test-optional policy in the summer of 2020 and has since renewed the policy into the 2022-23 admissions cycle (for admission to the Class of 2027). PRINCETON ACCEPTANCE RATE: DRIVING FORCES.

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BestColleges

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

minimum GPA to be accepted into the program this fall. GPA in past coursework. In 2020, we were able to get CARES Act funding to help support the rebooting and the modernization of the HUX program," Luckett said. "We The program will focus on humanities subjects and take two years to complete.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2024

During the 2023–2024 academic year, the average MCAT and GPA for students entering U.S. Yet, in 2020, the averages for individuals entering U.S. and a total GPA of 3.61. Suggested reading: Average GPA and MCAT Score For Every School ) Looking for MCAT practice questions? MD programs were 511.7 and 3.77, respectively.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

MARCH 28, 2023

In May 2020, the SAT and ACT were deemed optional for UC applicants through 2022, with the goals of completely eliminating the tests from their admissions process by 2024 and creating a new UC-specific standardized test by 2025. freshman and senior year don’t count for GPA purposes). Do UC schools require standardized tests?

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