<p>Oops… I made an error, and a rather significant one. It took so long for the CDS from 2009-2010 to load that I got the Wake SAT numbers from collegedata.com… big mistake, they appear to be from 2008.</p>
<p>The Wake Forest Common Data Set for 2009-2010 shows incoming freshmen had a big drop in 25/75 ave. CR+M scores down to from 1320 to 1285. I’m surprised such a big drop has not been reported, or I just missed it. I suppose this could have been predicted when applicants with lower SAT scores apply without showing those scores. <a href=“Home - Office of Institutional Research”>Home - Office of Institutional Research;
<p>OK, so what happened to GPA? Interestingly, the % of enrolled students in the top 10% of their HS graduating class increased significantly for 2009, as follows:</p>
<p>2007: 64%
2008: 64%
2009: 75%</p>
<p>It only makes sense that if SAT is reduced in importance, something must fill its void. It appears at quick glance that GPA has become proportionately more important as the SATs have become less important in WFU admissions.</p>
<p>This is REALLY interesting. I wonder how this new paradigm for student admission is playing out in the classroom… is there a degradation, an improvement? I wonder what the faculty has noticed??? It also appears that applicants with lower SAT scores who are not reporting them are not being penalized within WFU admissions.</p>