Goal Twelve

Goal 12: Maintain a composite SAT score of 1260 and a GPA of 3.7* for first-year students.

* High school-reported GPA for all years up to and including 2019; Unweighted GPA beginning in 2020


Progress:

The average GPA of the 2020 entering first year class is 3.67 and the average SAT Evidenced Based Reading & Writing plus Math is 1257.

Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Fall 2013 Fall 2014 Fall 2015 Fall 2016 Fall 2017 Fall 2018 Fall 2019 Fall 2020
Average composite SAT score 1188 1197 1202 1194 1201 1197 1200 1204 1257* 1257 1280 1257
High school GPA 3.66 3.72 3.74 3.71 3.73 3.70 3.72 3.76 3.78 3.78 3.82 3.67

*In recognition of the SAT redesign, this goal was updated in 2017 to reflect the new SAT composite score 1257 being roughly equivalent to a 1200 on the former SAT.