1.   High School Profile

• high school profile provides information regarding class size, grading scale, percent of students who are attending colleges and where are they attending, standardized testing profile, curriculum (honors, AP, IB classes offered), weighted vs. unweighted GPA

2.   Class Ranking

• many high schools are doing away with class ranking due to competition with fellow peers

• exact class rank vs. estimated class rank (decile, quartile, quintile)

3.   Standardized Testing

• SAT:  2 sections (reading and writing, math), 400-1600 scale  satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat 

• ACT:  4 sections (English, mathematics, reading, science), 1-36 scale  www.act.org 

• AP:  39 subjects, 1-5 scale  apstudents.collegeboard.org 

• TOEFL:  for international students only, 4 sections (reading, listening, speaking, writing ), 0-120 scale  www.ets.org/toefl.html