Sumner provided an admission update including the following information:
· The first 2 Fall 2001 Discover Grinnell Programs attracted 92 students (compared to 93) in 2000,
· In Sept. and Oct. of 2001 223 prospective students paid official admission visits to the campus, compared to 213 last year;
· Grinnell College received 66 total Early Decision Applications in 2000 and had 58 as of Nov. 5, 2001 (now 71 as of Nov. 14; deadline is Nov. 20);
· Grinnell College has received 22 applications for Spring 2002 transfer admission, compared to a final total of 28 last year.

Sumner led a brief discussion of the impact of the Sept. 11 terrorism on Grinnell College enrollment (no firm data is available on this topic to date, but a great deal of speculation abounds).

A longer discussion followed on the data presented to the Committee at its last Oct. meeting by Scott Baumler and Carol Trosset of the Grinnell College Office of Institutional Research. Sumner made the following observations:
1) 80% of Grinnell's best students (3.5+ GPA) entered with 1300+ SATs and 90% of the worst (2.5 and below GPA) entered with scores below 1300;
2) 80% of the best science students entered with a 700+ Math. SAT score and 70% of the worst were below 700;
3) 90% of the best students entered with a high school record rated 7 or above on the admission scale of 1-9, and 90% of the worst were below 7;
4) 90% of the best students entered with an ACT/SAT score rated 5 or above on the admission scale of 1-9, and 90% of the worst were below 5; and
5) 80% of the best students entered with an overall admission rating of 29 or better (scale=0-36), and 90% of the worst were below 29.
Sumner plans to share this information with the admission readers and the Faculty Board on Admission as part of their reader training and to help guide admission decisions.

Dean Swartz and the Committee agreed that the following agenda items will guide our near-future meetings;
· INS regulations update-Tom Crady
· Board on Admission review of borderline applicants of color-Sumner
· Need sensitive application review of international applicants-Eric Staab, and
· Review of current policy requiring transfer applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores-Sumner.

AGENDA FOR Nov. 19, 2001:
Review and discussion of emerging/refining INS regulations and their impact on Grinnell College enrollment (new and returning students).

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