<p>The University of Southern California prints out on their website a complete profile of their incoming freshmen class for fall 2008. It is in the undergraduate admissions section of the website. Included are numbers of applicants, numbers of freshmen, feeder high schools, racial composite and other statistical information.</p>
<p>Thanks for the links!</p>
<p>Great site! Thanks</p>
<p>Agreed-- cool site! What year is that data from? Is it based on the 2007 admissions data?</p>
<p>These should be based on information for the graduating class of 07. Updated CDSs should start becoming available in January.</p>
<p>Pitzer's 08-09 CDS: Pitzer</a> College Institutional Research</p>
<p>This time of year (the turn of the calendar year) is when Common Data Set information is updated. A few colleges are done updating as of the second week of December, and many more will be done by January. So in January 2009, most information sites, such as College Board's College QuickFinder application, will have information current to the fall 2008 entering class.</p>
<p>UCLA has a different URL for CDS starting in 2007 --</p>
<p>UCLA</a> Office of Analysis and Information Management | AIM</p>
<p>This is the 2008, but it, as did the 2007, continues to show 2006 in one of the Questions... that is a typo. </p>
<p>Like most schools, UCLA's admit rate keeps going down -- it was about 26% in 2006 entering, 24% for 2007 entering, and 23% for 2008 entering... putting it in a virtual tie with Berkeley for the hardest UC to get into.</p>
<p>any one know how to find it?</p>
<p>After I posted a somewhat snarky comment about Colgate on another thread, ericatbucknell
let me know that Colgate now has posted its CDS for 06-07, 07-08, and 08-09 on its Institutional Research website. Good for them! </p>
<p>[Colgate:</a> Institutional Planning and Research](<a href=“http://www.colgate.edu/DesktopDefault1.aspx?tabid=4156]Colgate:”>http://www.colgate.edu/DesktopDefault1.aspx?tabid=4156)</p>
<p>I think I hit the mother load for common data sets!</p>
<p>I was able to find schools that I hadn’t found anywhere, including Tulane, Lafayette, and University of Rochester. Try this and see if you can stump it.</p>
<p>INSTRUCTIONS:</p>
<p>(1) Go to www . collegedata . com and click on “COLLEGE MATCH >Search for colleges.”</p>
<p>(2) Type the name of the college in the box (e.g. Yale), then click on the matching entry that pops up (“Yale University”)</p>
<p>(3) Click on “Full Profile” in the upper right-hand corner, next to the Adobe Icon and it will bring up a PDF profile that I believe is from the college’s common data set submission.</p>
<p>Here is the hyperlink
[CollegeData:</a> College Search, Financial Aid, College Application, College Scholarship, Student Loan, FAFSA Info, Common Application](<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com%5DCollegeData:”>http://www.collegedata.com)</p>
<p>Is this as great as it seems to be???</p>
<p>^ I think you’re correct that these college profiles follow the format of the Common Data Set. I was interested to see how many items are “not reported” in Harvard’s profile, and that Harvard says it doesn’t consider class rank at all.</p>
<p>great find Dad’o’2…I too checked out Harvard, the poster child of CDS hold-outs…definitely has CDS-like materials available that have heretofore been challenging to find, other than the delayed USNews electronic reporting…but, as Tokenadult says, plenty of info missing still.</p>
<p>thank you!</p>
<p>A very useful site, thanks Dad’o’2, but not quite a one-to-one mapping from the CDS, at least for a couple of the schools I tried. It seems to summarize some things that are broken out in more detail by the CDS, to omit some information entirely (I did not see waitlist numbers, for example for schools that I know put them in the CDS), but they also include some information from other sources (there was information on athletic programs that I did not see in the CDS for example.) All in all, though, an excellent resource.</p>
<p>You did a great job of finding that data! I have seen that site (though in all honesty forgot that I’d saved it until I tried to save your link) but never found all that info. The data is from 2007 though. Wish it were more current (I looked at Tulane)</p>
<p>ok I’m a moron…where is the Adobe icon in the upper right hand corner? Should I go on internet explorer rather than AOL?</p>
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<p>I wonder how this company scrapes its data. I find it hard to believe that this is collected individually and independently, and now that I’ve looked at more college profiles, I’m not sure how accurate or current it is either. </p>
<p>Here’s my FAQ on the currency of Common Data Set data: </p>
<p>CURRENCY OF COMMON DATA SET INFORMATION </p>
<p>Each school year the colleges officially count their new freshman class AFTER the school year begins. (One college admission officer told me near the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year that his college counts on the tenth day of class in the new school year, which I think is industry-standard practice. Whatever the date, usually each college does this on the same date each year.) Sometime around the turn of the calendar year (that is, in January during the school year) a college’s figures for that freshman class begin to be posted on the College Board website, and possibly on the college’s own website in the form of a Common Data Set filing. So what you see early in the school year on the College Board descriptions of colleges is mostly information about the entering freshman class that entered in fall of the PREVIOUS school year (for example, information about new enrolled college students from high school class of 2008 is available to applicants in fall of 2009). That is the MOST RECENT information you have to go on as you apply for colleges yourself in fall of 2009, as a member of high school class of 2009. It is always like this–there is always a built-in lag between the year you can look up and the year you are living in as a student. Sometimes colleges post press releases right after they admit a new class in the spring, but those press releases are not comparable from college to college in the way that Common Data Set information is.</p>
<p>rodney,</p>
<p>make sure you are on the right page first. After searching for the college, did you click on the name of the college to get to the page that then lets you click on the Adobe icon? It took me a moment to realize that I had to go one screen farther than I initially thought to get to that point.</p>
<p>[Gettysburg</a> College - Common Data Set](<a href=“http://www.gettysburg.edu/facts_figures/cds.dot]Gettysburg”>http://www.gettysburg.edu/facts_figures/cds.dot)
Gettysburg College</p>
<p>I dug a little bit through their FAQs:</p>
<p>What type of information is available about individual colleges?</p>
<p>A tremendous amount of information is available about each of the 1,900 colleges in the CollegeData database, including detailed information about admissions, financial aid, costs, academics, and campus life. All colleges in our database are U.S. institutions that offer baccalaureate programs (such as B.A., B.S., B.F.A., etc.). Two-year institutions and institutions outside of the U.S. are not included.</p>
<p>**We license most of the college information from third-party data vendors. The vendors obtain the data directly from the individual colleges.<a href=“emphasis%20mine”>/b</a></p>
<p>The results of the College Chances and College Net Cost Calculator tools are calculated by CollegeData using information reported by the colleges. These results are not provided by the colleges.</p>
<p>How often is the information on CollegeData updated?</p>
<p>All information included on the CollegeData site is reviewed and updated on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Articles are reviewed and updated, as needed, throughout the year.
CollegeData updates all college information annually at the beginning of the academic year. Additional updates may be made during the year. The statistics currently displayed are reported by the colleges about the previous academic year. For example, in October 2008 the admissions statistics available on CollegeData reflect admission for the 2007-2008 academic year. The college information is used in several features, including the College Match search engine, College Profiles, College Chances, and College Net Cost Calculator.
CollegeData updates the Scholarship Finder database at least once a year prior to the beginning of the academic year. Additional updates may be made during the year.
CollegeData updates the EFC Estimator calculation formula and instructions annually at the beginning of the year.</p>