<p>On the last page of the NM OSA a series of numbers appears at the bottom:</p>
<p>Cl {two digit number}
% Col {one digit number}
Rank {one digit number}
Type {one digit number}
Maj {= major code}
Car {= career code}
Col # {= college choice code}</p>
<p>The last three clearly correlate with info on the form. Anyone care to provide data on the first four codes or speculate (or share information) about what they mean?</p>
<p>Great idea for a thread!</p>
<p>Cl = College Information?
Cl = 81
% Col = 9
Rank = 6
Type = 1</p>
<p>I am female, live with a guardian (aunt), have a 19-year-old brother, am a US citizen, am enrolled part-time in college, have Texas A&M (semester uni) as my first choice, and will live on campus.</p>
<p>Oh yea - PSAT: 215 in AZ</p>
<p>Edit: Public HS</p>
<p>I’ll hypothesize that “Type” is the type of high school you attend where 1 = “public” (vs. “private”, “parochial/religious”, “home-schooled”, [and “other”?]). Anyone have information to confirm or refute this?</p>
<p>Could “Rank” be percentage class rank for any of you? Mine is “5” which is accurate. Type is 1, and I go to public school. My Cl is my class size/10, could just be a coincidence though. And % Col is 9.</p>
<p>napalm, I think you’re onto something.</p>
<p>I thought “rank” might refer to % rank, too (i.e., 4 = top 4%), but that would mean they already have school-supplied personal info about you when the app form is created. Perhaps they do? Anyway, I think you are definitely on the right track with Class size. Works for the data I have seen, anyway.</p>
<p>So, maybe % Col = % (x10) of a high school’s grads who go onto college? That sounds plausible, too, given the limited data I have seen.</p>
<p>If any of this is true, what the numbers have encoded is your approximate academic performance (rank) set in a competitive context – class size, school type, and overall achievement of the student body.</p>
<p>Looking for more data to support (or counter) these conjectures.</p>
<p>Yes, Cl probably is class size/10.
Gosh you guys are so smart. :p</p>