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Members of the class of 2012 have spent their time doing some extraordinary things, both inside and outside the classroom. The first-year student you meet might just be a....

  • Nationally qualifying equestrian
  • Master Scuba Diver,
    one of only 85 in the world under age 18
  • Practicing paramedic and certified EMT
  • Outdoor education camp counselor
  • Youth interpreter at the Cincinnati Museum Center
  • Surgical assistant for an oral surgeon
  • Adventure cyclist
  • Award-winning cellist
  • Tae Kwon Do instructor
  • Science intern at the Cleveland Clinic
  • Accomplished competitor in one-design sailboat races
  • Former hospital intern in India
  • Habitat for Humanity volunteer who helped construct five houses
  • Certified underwater photographer
  • Commercial salmon fisherman off the Alaskan coast
  • Poll worker during the 2007 elections
  • Wilderness expedition leader
  • Student ambassador to seven countries for People to People
  • Apprentice and Master Ambassador at the Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Missionary to Ecuador, Kenya, and Peru

Fall 2008 Enrolled Students

Class rank
90th percentile
or better
37%
80th percentile
or better
61%
70th percentile
or better
79%
60th percentile
or better
92%
50th percentile
or better
98%

Who applied
  Ohio residents Non-Ohio residents
Applications received 7,554 7,455
Offered admission 6,170 5,897
Enrolled 2,368 1,359

Alumni parent(s)
Sons and daughters of alumni make up 11 percent (417 students) of the first-year class.

Male/female ratio
Women 2,021 54.2%
Men 1,706 45.8%

Where they went to high school
Ohio schools 475
Non-Ohio schools 693
Total number of high schools 1,168

What they did in high school
Volunteer work 92%
Varsity athletics 67%
Musical groups or theater 39%
Advanced College Study 80%
Valedictorians/salutatorians 7%
ACT composite scores
30 or above 19%
26 or above 58%
22 or above 93%

SAT I combined scores (V+M)
1300 or above 21%
1200 or above 50%
1100 or above 80%

Academic standing middle 50% ranges
This is the range above which 25 percent of students fall and below which 25 percent fall.
Rank in class top 6 to 27 percent
ACT composite score 24 to 29
SAT I combined score (V+M) 1110 to 1280

Where they come from
The first-year class includes students from 39 of the 50 states and from 19 foreign countries. The distribution includes:
Ohio 64%
Other states 36%
Out-of-state students by region
New England 126
Middle Atlantic 247
South 179
Eastern Midwest 515
Western Midwest 101
West 94
Foreign countries 83

Multicultural profile
Multicultural students 364

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