Links to the Common Data Sets Posted by Colleges

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<p>Great information. Very helpful!</p>

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<p>Very, very helpful information. Thank you!</p>

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<p>Why would you need the link to a specific school’s Common Data Set? The CDS is a “Common” set of questions asked of schools by US News, College Board, and Peterson’s. A number of years back, those 3 companies got together with industry folks to settle upon specific questions asked in specific ways so that there would be consistent and comparable answers. EVERYTHING in the CDS you will find in the profiles provided by those publications. Even more info is provided by College Navigator, which a a government website using data that institutions are required to report. I should know; I work in institutional research and I fill out these questionnaires/surveys all the time. Cheers!</p>

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<p>sandstreet:</p>

<p>Thank you for your reply. I hope that you continue to share some of your professional expertise here at collegeconfidential.</p>

<p>I also found some other data sources like NCES’s College Navigator and the Education Trust’s ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ very useful. There is still some other data that is part of the Common Data Set that I have had some difficulty finding in a centralized source. Can you tell me where I can find some of the following information which is part of the Common Data Set but not reported widely?</p>

<p>B3 - degrees granted (not just B, but also M, PhD, and xD)
C2 - waiting list movement
C3 - HS diploma required (not by MIT, Caltech)
C9 - percent of admits with SAT’s in the 700’s, 600’s, etc and similar distribution data for ACT’s
C10 - class rank info including the percent of students submitting a class rank
C11 - distribution of admits’ HS GPA’s
C18 - maximum admissions deferral
C19 - early admission (before finishing HS)
E1 - special study option offered
F1 - percentages of students who live off campus, join frats, join sororities. average age
F2 - activities offered
F4 - Housing options including men or women’s dorms, greek housing, co-ops, wellness housing, themed housing
G2 - min and max course loads paid for by full-time tuition</p>

<p>H1 - TREASURE TROVE of Financial Aid Data
total dollars of financial aid
broken up simultaneously by need-based or non-need-based and also by source including
-grants
–federal
–state
–institutional
–external
-self-help
–student loans
–work-study
-parent loans
-tuition waivers
-athletic awards (listed separately not as general scholarships or grants)
Again this lists need-based and merit or non-need-based aid from each source separately!</p>

<p>H2l - average need based self-help
H2m - average need based loan
H2An - students awarded non-need-based grants (merit scholarship) (broken up by freshman and all undergrads)
H2Ao - average merit scholarship per student (broken up by freshman and all undergrads)
H4 - percent of graduates with student loans (federal or all)
H5 - average student debt (federal or all)
H6 - aid for international students
H14 - FinAid criteria
I1 - faculty (minorities, women, international, with doctorates, with only masters)
I3 - distribution of class sizes (number of UG classes and class sections (listed separately) with 2-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-99, or 100+ students)</p>

<p>I know that this is a lot of data. This is just some of the data included in the Common Data Set that interests me that I have difficulty finding elsewhere. Can anyone tell me where I can easily find much of this data outside the common data set?</p>

<p>sandstreet, can you offer any help here?</p>

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<p>OK, I should have checked the college board’s site; bigfuture.collegeboard.org lists much of this data. Thank You College Board for presenting so much of the CDS data! </p>

<p>What I couldn’t find yet includes:</p>

<p>B3 - number of Bachelors, Masters, PhD, and xD degrees granted in that year
C3 - HS diploma required (not by MIT, Caltech)
C18 - maximum admissions deferral
C19 - early admission (before finishing HS)
G2 - min and max course loads paid for by full-time tuition
H1 - TREASURE TROVE of Financial Aid Data
total dollars of financial aid
broken up simultaneously by need-based or non-need-based and also by source including
-grants
–federal
–state
–institutional
–external
-self-help
–student loans
–work-study
-parent loans
-tuition waivers
-athletic awards (listed separately not as general scholarships or grants)
Again this lists need-based and merit or non-need-based aid from each source separately!</p>

<p>H2l - average need based self-help
H2m - average need based loan
H2An - students awarded non-need-based grants (merit scholarship) (broken up by freshman and all undergrads)
H2Ao - average merit scholarship per student (broken up by freshman and all undergrads)
H4 - percent of graduates with student loans (listed as just federal and total)
H5 - average student debt (listed as just federal and total)
H14 - FinAid criteria
I1 - faculty (minorities, women, international, with doctorates, with only masters)
I3 - distribution of class sizes (number of UG classes and class sections (listed separately) with 2-9, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-99, or 100+ students)</p>

<p>Where else might I find some of the rest?</p>

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<p>Does everyone want to go to Harvard? My daughter is in the top 1% (score-wise) in the nation. However, she doesn’t want to be in a school where all students are overly competitive. She wants to learn and meet new friends and grow as a person. She can get that at many other wonderful schools. The Ivy schools are great and offer a leg up when searching for a job, but they’re not for everyone.</p>

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<p>Thanks @richs73cas & others. The links here are just great. Thanks!!!</p>

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<p>Louisiana Tech: <a href=“http://www.latech.edu/ir/assets/cds2012_2013.pdf[/url]”>http://www.latech.edu/ir/assets/cds2012_2013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>University of North Carolina at Charlotte: [Academic</a> Year 2012-2013 | Office of Institutional Research | UNC Charlotte](<a href=“CDS | Institutional Research and Decision Support | UNC Charlotte”>Academic Year 2012-2013 | Institutional Research and Decision Support | UNC Charlotte)</p>

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<p>East Carolina University: [IPAR</a> - Research - Facts and Figures - Common Data Sets](<a href=“http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/ipar/research/CommonDataSets.cfm]IPAR”>http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/ipar/research/CommonDataSets.cfm)</p>

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<p>University of South Dakota: [Common</a> Data Set - USD](<a href=“http://www.usd.edu/academics/academic-affairs/institutional-research/common-data-set.cfm]Common”>http://www.usd.edu/academics/academic-affairs/institutional-research/common-data-set.cfm)</p>

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<p>woop thanks xx</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.wustl.edu/policies/assets/pdfs/wustl%20cds%202012-2013.pdf[/url]”>http://www.wustl.edu/policies/assets/pdfs/wustl%20cds%202012-2013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>:)</p>

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<p>I am SHOCKED. WUSTL, the hold-out of hold-outs. Assuming this is a first (& I haven’t missed it before), Xiggi, what goes on here? Did they accidently make this available via web? Better download & study before they realize their transparency mistake!</p>

<p>Found a couple of others (by substituting years in the 12-13 url):
11-12: <a href=“http://www.wustl.edu/policies/assets/pdfs/wustl%20cds%202011-2012.pdf[/url]”>http://www.wustl.edu/policies/assets/pdfs/wustl%20cds%202011-2012.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
10-11: <a href=“http://www.wustl.edu/policies/assets/pdfs/wustl%20cds%202010-2011.pdf[/url]”>http://www.wustl.edu/policies/assets/pdfs/wustl%20cds%202010-2011.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I’ve become somewhat of a CDS junkie. When can we expect 2013-14 reports to be posted?</p>

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<p>Ditto! Pomona was one of the first out last year in the 2nd or 3rd week of October. The flow really starts in November and peaks Dec/Jan from what I’ve observed in the past.</p>

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<p>Just did a quick search. A few are starting to be posted- Pitt and Depauw are up.</p>

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<p>I was so excited Pitt was up–its one of my son’s top choice schools. Unfortunately, Pitt’s 2013-14 CDS is only partially completed. Some sections even say “Coming Soon.” </p>

<p>Looks like Pitt has some slight increases in 75th percentile SAT and ACT scores: 10 pts each for CR, M, & WR; ACT from 30 to 31. I love to compare the numbers!</p>

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<p>More now showing up on searching. Drake, DePaul, Marquette. Hmm…Midwestern early birds?</p>

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<p>Hi to all:
I read the following paragraph on CC about Harvard’s common dataset:
“56% of the applicants scored 1400 or higher on the SAT”</p>

<p>Are they talking about 1400 out of 2400 on the SAT? It seems too low?</p>