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By combining your results with the latest available data on admissions and school rankings, College Kickstart's Outcomes Summary Report makes it easy for you to compare your results with the national context and to deliver insights to your board.
The file name when downloaded is "YOUR SCHOOL NAME Board Summary Report.pdf"
The outcomes report is broken down into the following sections:
- College Outcomes Summary
- Admission Summary
- Results by Admission Plan
- Waitlist Summary
- Matriculation Results
- Results for Selected Institutions
- Ratings and Rankings Summary
- Ratings and Rankings Summary by Quintile
COLLEGE OUTCOMES SUMMARY
This section highlights findings gathered from later sections of the report, including class size, overall admission rate vs. comparable national/global admission rate and admissions/matriculation information by plan, selectivity and institution type.
For additional details on this view, please refer to this article: Outcomes Reports - Outcomes Summary Report - College Outcomes Summary
Intended Uses
- Get a bird’s eye view of admission and matriculation results and three-year trends.
- Help your admissions office understand your admissions “bump” relative to national admission rates
Common Questions
- Why does the class size not match up to my count?
- This is likely due to incomplete or duplicate records that were excluded during your file import.
- What is a global admit rate?
- The global admit rate is the overall admission rate reported by each of the institutions your students applied to, weighted by application. By comparing this to the high school admit rate, you can get a sense for your high school’s admissions “bump” relative to overall results.
- What admit rate do you use for categorizing selectivity?
- The latest available overall admission rate for the institution is used to categorize selectivity.
- What does “Not Categorized” mean?
- Not categorized indicates that needed data was not available to categorize a school properly. For example, under Admissions Mix by Selectivity, the “not categorized” section indicates the mix of schools where overall admission rate is not available/not tracked.
ADMISSION SUMMARY
This section provides a breakdown of what type of institution and where students were admitted.
Common Questions
- Which states are in each region?
- Please refer to this article: Outcomes Reports - What states does a region cover?
RESULTS BY ADMISSION PLAN
This section provides a breakdown of admittance by admission plan.
Intended Use
- Track early admission trends
Common Questions
- How do you count schools with rolling admission or multiple priority windows?
- These are treated as regular decision.
WAITLIST SUMMARY
This section provides a breakdown of applications that were waitlisted.
Intended Use
- Track waitlisted applications
MATRICULATION SUMMARY
This section provides a breakdown of matriculations by institution type, region and selectivity.
Intended Uses
- Understand key matriculation trends
Common Questions
- Which states are in each region?
- Please refer to this article: Outcomes Reports - What states does a region cover?
RESULTS FOR SELECTED INSTITUTIONS
Most Popular Schools by Number of Applications
This section provides a three-year breakdown of your results versus national results for several popular public and private institutions. The latest available national admission rates are provided to eliminate the need to track them yourself.
Intended Use
- Assess your results within the context of national admission trends
Common Questions
- What is the Global or National Rate?
- Please refer to this article for additional details: Outcomes Reports - Outcomes Summary Report - Results for Selected Institutions and Rating/Ranking Summaries
- Why are national rates blank for some of the entries?
- This is because the rate for that year isn’t currently available for the institution. Institutions vary widely in terms of the timeframes they report the information.
Waitlist Summary for the Most Popular Schools
This section provides a breakdown of waitlisted applications and their rate of admittance to several popular institutions.
Intended Use
- Track waitlist trends
RATINGS AND RANKINGS SUMMARY
This section provides a breakdown of applications, admittance and matriculation based on subjective and objective measures like Barron’s and U.S. News rankings or school selectivity. Your admission rate is also tracked by cohort and compared to the global admission rate for those institutions to help assess your admission advantage.
Intended Uses
- Assess outcomes and relative performance based on subjective Barron’s and U.S. News rankings or objective measures like overall admission rate.
Common Questions
- How are the Barron's, U.S. News rankings, and Admissions Selectivity categories defined?
- Please refer this article : Outcomes Reports - Outcomes Summary Report - Results for Selected Institutions and Rating/Ranking Summaries
- Are schools categorized by their rankings for a particular year?
- No, schools are categorized based on the latest available rankings.
RATINGS AND RANKINGS SUMMARY BY QUINTILE
The final section provides enrollment mix and admission rates divided by by academic quintile based on ratings and rankings.
Please refer to this article for additional details: Outcomes Reports - Outcomes Summary Report - Ratings and Rankings Summary by Quintile
Intended Uses
- Assess the impact of academic performance on results
Common Questions
- How do you determine academic quintile?
- Academic quintile is based on class rank, weighted GPA or unweighted GPA in that order of preference.
- Where is the underlying detail for the quintile analysis?
- This is available in the Detailed Quintile Analysis Report, which is included in the Plus edition of the Board Reporting Service.