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Old 07-02-2005, 11:42 AM   #1
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Links to the Common Data Sets Posted by Colleges

Amherst College http://www.amherst.edu/about_amh/cds/
Barnard College http://www.barnard.edu/opir/cds/cds-c.PDF
Bates College Furman: Engaged Learning at a Leading Liberal Arts University
Bentley College index : Bentley
Bowdoin Common Data Set (Bowdoin, )
Brown University Boston University - Office of Enrollment Planning and Retention
Bucknell University Page Not Found || Bucknell University
Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon - University Planning
Colby College Colby College | Administration | Office of Institutional Research and Assessment
College of the Holy Cross Page has moved
Cornell University Cornell Common Data Set
Dartmouth College Common Data Set
Davidson College http://www2.davidson.edu/administrat.../ir/ir_cds.asp
Emory University http://www.emory.edu/PROVOST/IPR/ipr_facts.htm
Fairfield University http://www.fairfield.edu/cds.html
Furman University Furman: Engaged Learning at a Leading Liberal Arts University
George Washington University http://www.gwu.edu/~ire/
Georgia Tech Office of Institutional Research and Planning
Grinnell College http://www.grinnell.edu/offices/inst...lresearch/cds/
Hamilton College Hamilton College - Institutional Research - Home
Harvey Mudd College http://www.hmc.edu/information.html#general
Haverford College http://www.haverford.edu/info/commondata03.pdf
Indiana University Bloomington http://www.indiana.edu/~budu/cds/cds034/G1400bl.pdf
Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University: Facts And Statistics
Lehigh University Common Data Set
Loyola College in Maryland Institutional Research
Loyola University Office of Institutional Research - Loyola University New Orleans
Macalester College Macalester College Institutional Research
Michigan State University OPB - Office of Planning and Budgets
Middlebury College Common Data Sets
MIT MIT Office of the Provost, Institutional Research
Mount Holyoke College Institutional Research
New York University NYU > IR > Common Data Set
Northeastern University http://www.oupr.neu.edu/dataset/common.html
Northwestern University Common Data Set - Northwestern University
Oberlin College http://peacock.adm.oberlin.edu/www/cds/cds_explain.html
Ohio State University http://oem.osu.edu/
Princeton University Common Data Set - Office of the Registrar
Reed College Reed College 2004-05 Common Data Set
Rhodes College Rhodes - Institutional Research
Rice University Rice Facts 2004-2005, Rice University
Scripps College Scripps College : About Scripps College
Skidmore College Fact Book - Skidmore College Office of Institutional Research
Smith College Smith College: Institutional Research
St Michaels in Vermont Assessment Home
Stanford University http://find.stanford.edu/search?as_s...sheet.xslt&oe=
Swarthmore College Swarthmore College Institutional Research
UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Common Data Set
University of California Los Angeles UCLA Office of Analysis and Information Management
University of California San Diego University of California, San Diego
University of Connecticut University of Connecticut
University of Delaware UD Common Data Set
University of Michigan Redirect to New Location
University of Missouri http://www.umkc.edu/ir/pdf/common-dataset-2005.pdf
University of Pennsylvania Penn Office of Institutional Research and Analysis
University of Richmond Databases
University of Vermont UVM Reports : University of Vermont
University of Virginia UVa CDS - C. First-time, First-year Admission
University of Washington Institutional Studies
Vanderbilt University http://virg.vanderbilt.edu/virg/option1/virg1_flash.htm
Vassar College Home
Villanova University Office of Planning, Training and Institutional Research
Wake Forest University WFU | Institutional Research
Washington and Lee University Common Data Set
Wellesley College Wellesley College Office of Institutional Research
Whitman College Institutional Research
William and Mary Common Dataset
Williams College Institutional Research Directory
Yale University Common Data Set

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Old 07-02-2005, 11:52 AM   #2
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Great list.
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Old 07-02-2005, 11:53 AM   #3
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richs73cas,

I've already added your post to my list of Favorites...great post and thanks.
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Old 07-02-2005, 12:10 PM   #4
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this is the closest thing I could find to Harvards dataset
By standard measures of academic talent, including test scores and academic performance in school, this year's applicant pool (and admitted group) remained quite similar to last year's impressive Class of 2008. For example, once again 56 percent of the candidates scored 1400 or higher on SATs; almost 2,150 scored a perfect 800 on their SAT verbal test; more than 3,200 scored an 800 on the SAT math; and nearly 3,200 were valedictorians of their high school classes.
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Old 07-02-2005, 01:52 PM   #5
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Amazing, and they still rank 26th (out of 31 schools) in student satisfaction with academic quality.
http://www.boston.com/news/education..._poll_fin ds/
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Old 08-20-2005, 09:18 AM   #6
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Excellent post. Thanks.
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Old 08-20-2005, 10:22 AM   #7
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where is gtown
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Old 08-20-2005, 10:56 AM   #9
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For example, once again 56 percent of the candidates scored 1400 or higher on SATs; almost 2,150 scored a perfect 800 on their SAT verbal test; more than 3,200 scored an 800 on the SAT math; and nearly 3,200 were valedictorians of their high school classes.
Actually, this data just shows how little self-selection there is in the Harvard applicant pool.

Based on this data, almost half of the people who apply have SATs below Harvard's 25th percentile. Why bother? Did they research the school at all?

And 85% of Harvard's applicants were not valedictorians of their high school? What are they thinking? Yeah, I'm 25th in my class and I was editor of the yearbook, so I'm applying to Harvard?

Maybe I'm nuts. But it seems like common sense that, if you don't have a very strong class rank and 1400+ SATs, you probably aren't going to get accepted to Harvard. Who is advising these kids?

So what we really have is half the apps going straight from the envelop to the recyling bin and an acceptance rate in the high teens from the stack of "real" applications.
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Old 08-20-2005, 11:01 AM   #10
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Vals

I love the Vals stat the most.....a low quality Val but they think they count for the big time. I hear about and read this all the time. It reminds me of the PSAT National Merit stuff.
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where is gtown ahhhh
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Yeah, there was the 1560 SAT valedictorian from New York a few years ago who applied to every Ivy with an essay that said please disregard my essay, I'm not that good of a writer, just review the rest of my application...from what Brown told me, he's going to a state school now. To this date, Brown still retells that story at their information sessions.

With 32,000 vales in the country, why does everyone think they're going to get into an Ivy, or have a shot at Harvard no less?
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I'm looking for Georgetowns and Dukes along with these
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Thank you! This is very helpful.
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