Links to the Common Data Sets Posted by Colleges

<p>Kentucky Wesleyan College - <a href=“http://panther.kwc.edu/ics/Portlets/ICS/Handoutportlet/viewhandler.ashx?handout_id=4c2914e1-dd7a-4320-9695-61afb6cc3c0a[/url]”>http://panther.kwc.edu/ics/Portlets/ICS/Handoutportlet/viewhandler.ashx?handout_id=4c2914e1-dd7a-4320-9695-61afb6cc3c0a&lt;/a&gt;
St. John Fisher College - <a href=“http://www.sjfc.edu/about/institutionalresearch/documents/commondata/CDS2009-10.pdf[/url]”>http://www.sjfc.edu/about/institutionalresearch/documents/commondata/CDS2009-10.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Fugitives:</p>

<p>Bard
Beloit
Cooper Union
Evansville
Fordham
Hanover
Ripon
Shimer</p>

<p>C’mon, folks. Pay attention. I’m not gonna tell you again! collegedata dot com</p>

<p>Maybe it’s not exactly the format you’re used to and it might be a year old, but the fugitives have been apprehended.</p>

<p>Bard: <a href=“https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=116[/url]”>https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=116&lt;/a&gt;
Beloit: <a href=“https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=301[/url]”>https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=301&lt;/a&gt;
Cooper Union: <a href=“https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=238[/url]”>https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=238&lt;/a&gt;
Evansville: <a href=“https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=963[/url]”>https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=963&lt;/a&gt;
Fordham: <a href=“https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1148[/url]”>https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1148&lt;/a&gt;
Hanover: <a href=“https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=366[/url]”>https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=366&lt;/a&gt;
Ripon: <a href=“https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=816[/url]”>https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=816&lt;/a&gt;
Shimer: <a href=“https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1356[/url]”>https://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg01_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=1356&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This thread is for actual Common Data Sets; the collegedata forms leave a lot out.</p>

<p>What specifically are you looking for from the CDS that isn’t on the collegedata forms?</p>

<p>[Common</a> Data Set - Institutional Research - Ithaca College](<a href=“Analytics and Institutional Research | Ithaca College”>Ithaca College | Ranked #1 for Undergraduate Teaching)</p>

<p>[Franklin</a> & Marshall - Institutional Research](<a href=“F&M Page Not Found”>F&M Page Not Found)</p>

<p>Why doesn’t UPenn have a standard Common Data Set? The link posted is good, but it’s also less information that what other schools provide. (I posted this question in the UPenn area too.) TIA.</p>

<p>University of Miami [Common</a> Data Set | University of Miami](<a href=“http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,2409-1;44530-2;64002-3,00.html]Common”>http://www6.miami.edu/UMH/CDA/UMH_Main/0,1770,2409-1;44530-2;64002-3,00.html)</p>

<p>mrscollege-- if you believe the banter on this board, and in this case I do, Penn has a long history of being a data manipulator (fudge their numbers to look good), so the theory is, I guess, that the less info they put out publicly, the less that can be held against them. Transparency is not their mantra.</p>

<p>[ps…& I’m a Penn alum…I love the school, but not their opacity principle.]</p>

<p>new link for</p>

<p>Pomona [Common</a> Data Set - Pomona College](<a href=“http://www.pomona.edu/administration/institutional-research/summary-statistics/institution/cds.aspx]Common”>http://www.pomona.edu/administration/institutional-research/summary-statistics/institution/cds.aspx)</p>

<p>USMA West Point [United</a> States Military Academy at West Point - Comman Data Set Listing](<a href=“http://www.usma.edu/opa/common_data_ver5.html]United”>http://www.usma.edu/opa/common_data_ver5.html)
USNA Annapolis NO CDS, but terse profile: <a href=“http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/documents/Class%20Portrait%202013.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/documents/Class%20Portrait%202013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Sewanee <a href=“Sewanee”>Sewanee;

<p>Depauw [DePauw</a> University: Institutional Research](<a href=“DePauw Login”>DePauw Login)</p>

<p>Franklin & Marshall [Franklin</a> & Marshall - Institutional Research](<a href=“F&M Page Not Found”>F&M Page Not Found)</p>

<p>Centre [Institutional</a> Research Home Page](<a href=“http://web.centre.edu/ir/]Institutional”>http://web.centre.edu/ir/)</p>

<p>Union [Common</a> Data Set](<a href=“http://www.union.edu/Resources/Campus/institutional_studies/CDS/index.php]Common”>http://www.union.edu/Resources/Campus/institutional_studies/CDS/index.php)</p>

<p>So why the secrecy? [Well, we know why for Penn]</p>

<p>UNIVERSITIES (14 total that I found)
Penn
Columbia
Chicago
Duke
Washinton U
Johns Hopkins
Rice
Notre Dame
Georgetown
U Southern California
Tufts
Boston College
U Rochester
Tulane</p>

<p>LACs (6 total)
Wellesley
USNA Annapolis
Lafayette
Occidental
Bard
Conn College</p>

<p>While some of these like Tufts & BC have nice Factbooks, its still not the same as having a series of CDS’s.</p>

<p>Got to suspect that Duke, Chicago, WUStL and USC, including a few others have similar motives as Penn…</p>

<p>I believe a vast number of schools simply lie on their data reporting. Many years ago I worked with a man who had spent several years in the administration of an ACC school well-regarded as a strong academic institution. He said that his school absolutely lied on its data (e.g. test scores of enrolled students) by excluding certain demographic groups of students who had poor test scores. I believe many schools do that–but cannot back that up with anything concrete. </p>

<p>It would, however, be interesting to look at, say, the ACT scores posted by all US colleges and see whether the composite yields a believeable number. For example, you check the common “middle 50% ACT” versus ACT percentiles and calculate how many students fall into the upper group. If a school says its “middle 50%” is 27-31, I believe that means 25% had 32 or higher. I believe the upper group in aggregate would exceed the number of USA students who scored that high. If 4% of test takers score higher than 30 on the ACT and 1,200,000 students take the test each year, that means 48,000 actually score that high. I’ll bet that a review of college websites would yield a number much much higher than 48,000. Hope I’m not being too cyncical…</p>

<p>Interesting. Thanks, Papachicken. My D went to UPenn summer session and fell in love with the school (and Philly) as well.</p>

<p>Here are the ACT figures: </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.act.org/news/data/09/pdf/two.pdf[/url]”>http://www.act.org/news/data/09/pdf/two.pdf&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>Common Data Set data is supposed to be about ENROLLED students, so, yes, the total number of students reported by colleges above this or that score on the ACT should be no more than the total number of students in the relevant high school class who obtained scores that high.</p>

<p>JHU DOES have the CDS available online.
Check this page: [Registrar’s</a> Office | Reports & Data](<a href=“Registrar - Homewood Schools (KSAS & WSE) | Office of the Registrar | Johns Hopkins University”>Registrar - Homewood Schools (KSAS & WSE) | Office of the Registrar | Johns Hopkins University)
There are links to the CDSs for '07-'08 and '08-'09. Looks like the '09-'10 report is pending.</p>

<p>Although I found info on the college data site, I cannot find the actual CDS for these schools:
Clark University, Worcester, MA
Union College, Schenectady, NY</p>

<p>Any ideas? Thanks.</p>

<p>thanks MomCat2</p>

<p>Union [Common</a> Data Set](<a href=“http://www.union.edu/Resources/Campus/institutional_studies/CDS/index.php]Common”>http://www.union.edu/Resources/Campus/institutional_studies/CDS/index.php)</p>

<p>Clark lists an institutional research office (the normal administrative office home for CDS’s) in their directory, but with no link…hence it appears that Clark would rather not have their information public.</p>

<p>Papa Chicken, thanks. Sometimes my brain just stops working.</p>