2005 Admission Stats

Colleges and Universities A-Z Grinnell College
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<p>ALL STUDENTS:</p>

<p>Applied 3923
Admitted 1435 (36.6%)
Enrolled 408 (28.4%)</p>

<p>High School Ranks ? Admitted Students</p>

<p>1st Decile 744 (81.1%)
2nd Decile 116 (12.7%)
3rd Decile 46 (5.0%)
4th Decile 8 (0.9%)
5th Decile 3 (0.3%)
6th Decile 0 (0.0%)
NOT RANKED=481</p>

<p>SAT/ACT Scores</p>

<p>Average SAT - Admitted Students (Number 907)
Verbal 695
Math 697 </p>

<p>ACT Combined - Admitted Students (Number 477)
30.7 </p>

<p>Extracurricular Profile of the Class of 2009</p>

<p>Community service 85 (22%)
School time work 171 (44%)
Speech/debate/forensics 15 (4%)
High school publications 67 (17%)
Editor of publications 38 (10%)
Instrumental/vocal music 90 (23%)
Dance/theatre 189 (49%)
Art 53 (14%)
Student government 103 (26%)
Class president 76 (20%)
Varsity athletics 161 (41%)
Varsity captain 166 (43%)
National Honor Society 194 (50%)</p>

<p>FIRST-CHOICE MAJOR (class of 408) Top seven disciplines:
Biology 41
English 40
Political Science 20
Math/History 19
Medicine 17
Psychology 16
Physics 15</p>

<p>INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS:</p>

<p>Applied 1072
Actionable 876
Admitted 219
Enrolled 48</p>

<p>High School Ranks ? Admitted Students</p>

<p>1st Quintile 93 (95%)
2nd Quintile 4 (4%)
3rd Quintile 1 (1%)
NOT RANKED=108</p>

<p>SAT/ACT Scores</p>

<p>Average SAT - Admitted Students (Number 189)
Verbal 642
Math 732 </p>

<p>ACT Combined - Admitted Students (Number 3)
31.7</p>

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<p>Pretty remarkable drop in overall admissions rates over the course of a few years. 3 years earlier, I am pretty sure, the admit rate overall was about 65%. What this may or may not have to do with the other thread you posted about changing financial aid policies for internationals, I am not sure. In other words, do they think they can be more selective in general???</p>

<p>My son, for one, specifically selected Grinnell over similar options because of the notably high % of international kids. It would be shame if that were to drop.</p>

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<p>Okay, I have this weird question. What does 'actionable' mean in intel section? Did intels get admitted or what? I'm just being curious :)</p>

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<p>The increased selectivity is due to a 40% increase in the number of applications over a 5 year period. </p>

<p>I believe "actionable" means that they are still considering your application; no decision has been made yet.</p>

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<p>robyrm:
I read about the new financial aid policies on Grinnell's website (it was a page from Scarlet and Black). They feel the policies won't bring down the number of international students. But, among international applicants who request financial aid only the best will be accepted.</p>

<p>ellenjh:
I think "actionable" just means all those who completed their applications, sent in their test scores, met high school course requirements, etc. - all those who could be considered for admission.</p>

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<p>Grinnell used to be like your hidden "mom and pop" restaurant -- a place for you to go and not to be known or frequented by others unless they were part of a very "in" crowd.</p>

<p>Then in 2004, Newsweek named it the School of the Year, or something like that.</p>

<p>In my day, Grinnell joked that Harvard was the Grinnell of the east. And, Grinnell lived quietly in the middle of no where, middle of Iowa, a place where teachers taught and students participated in class.</p>

<p>Now I am looking at colleges with my senior daughter.</p>

<p>One great stat I learned when visiting colleges with my daughter over the past year (she has no interest in Grinnell) was the answer to the formulaic question about class size. The best barometer tends to be the size of Bio 101 or Inorganic Chemistry. We asked Pomona (80), Rice (120), Stanford (120+) and Occidental (80-100). All good or great schools, but just a bit crowded in that class.</p>

<p>Then I had some kids over from Grinnell. "How big is the preliminary Chemistry class?" I ask. "Oh, its real big" they respond. "How big?" I ask wondering if the school's growth (1200 in my time to 1600 today) made these classes expand to be more like Pomona or Occidental. "Oh, really big" they inform me.</p>

<p>"Like 50-60?" I ask trying to quantify the term "really big." "Oh no. it was like 30-35" they tell me.</p>

<p>That class size, or lack of the same, is just one more special thing offered at Grinnell which attracts the applicant(s) described with the statistical numbers recited as the opener to this thread.</p>

<p>Grinnell is no longer the "mom and pop" restaurant. It is vogue. It is much harder to get into. </p>

<p>For those trying to stay on the cutting edge -- watch for Rhodes, Swanee, U RIchmond or Eckerd in the upcoming years. Presently, some of those schools accept 60-80 percent -- a stat for Grinnell in the not-too-distant past. That too will end.</p>

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<p>Indian, you asserted that for the class of 2009, the following was true for Grinnell</p>

<p>Varsity athletics 161 (41%)
Varsity captain 166 (43%)</p>

<p>How do you have 166 captains for 161 applicants?</p>

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<p>Uhm, liars?</p>

<p>I know a kid who put varsity tennis team captain even though there is no such thing. The tennis coach said it was fine.</p>

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<p>SORRY</p>

<p>Got it pretty mixed up. I copied and pasted that part from a graph in a PDF File and all the figures got jumbled.</p>

<p>So here it is (double checked it this time):</p>

<p>Community service 166 (43%)
School time work 161 (41%)
Speech/debate/forensics 76 (20%)
High school publications 103 (26%)
Editor of publications 53 (14%)
Instrumental/vocal music 189 (49%)
Dance/theatre 90 (23%)
Art 38 (10%)
Student government 67 (17%)
Class president 15 (4%)
Varsity athletics 171 (44%)
Varsity captain 85 (22%)
National Honor Society 194 (50%)</p>

<p>Phew... And I thought printer's devils were things of the past... Thanks for correcting me Father of the Boarder. Sorry again.</p>

<p>For anyone interested in knowing a whole lot of things about last year?s admissions, the page is
<a href="http://web.grinnell.edu/dean/Reports/05-06/ReportOnAdmission2005.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://web.grinnell.edu/dean/Reports/05-06/ReportOnAdmission2005.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>22% varsity captain! dang......</p>