GRE Scores for Students Attending Oberlin College
Matched with Oberlin College Student Records Data
Office of Institutional Research
22-Jun-07
General Tests Number Verbal Percentile Quantitative Percentile Analytical Percentile Writing Percentile
OC Major
Humanities 658 626 83.2% 621 58.9% 631 68.1% 5.1 69.0%
Social Sciences 515 605 79.2% 634 61.8% 652 72.8% 5.0 67.1%
Sciences 610 605 79.9% 694 75.3% 671 77.7% 4.9 64.1%
Other 146 616 82.6% 632 61.1% 641 71.0% 4.9 64.2%
Ethnicity
African American 92 504 56.5% 519 37.6% 518 43.0% 4.7 56.3%
Asian American 123 574 73.4% 650 65.9% 625 67.1% 4.9 64.7%
Latino 67 556 67.8% 604 56.2% 565 52.5% 5.0 71.7%
White/Other 1367 626 84.0% 654 66.1% 665 76.0% 5.0 66.9%
Foreign 61 528 60.3% 670 69.3% 598 62.8% 4.8 58.6%
Correlations Verbal Quantitative Analytical
SAT Verbal 0.651 0.326 0.42 0.381
SAT Math 0.367 0.626 0.535 0.274
OC GPA 0.353 0.268 0.273 0.332
                   
Subject Scores By OC Major
Humanities Majors
Number Score Percentile
Bio-Chem/Molec Biology 1 400 11.0%
Biology 5 726 77.4%
Chemistry 5 648 44.0%
Computer Science 3 747 78.3%
Economics 1 630 48.0%
Geology 2 490 17.0%
History 3 553 67.0%
Literature in English 66 583 66.2%
Mathematics 1 780 49.0%
Music 11 537 60.5%
Physics 1 710 61.0%
Psychology 13 647 78.3%
Sociology 1 440 60.0%
Social Science Majors
Number Score Percentile
Biology 3 693 66.3%
Economics 6 733 72.7%
Geology 1 733 72.7%
History 6 538 24.0%
Literature in English 5 552 55.6%
Mathematics 2 790 51.5%
Mathematics Re-scaled 1 410 4.0%
Music 6 568 67.5%
Political Science 2 535 70.0%
Psychology 64 657 80.6%
Sociology 2 530 78.5%
Science Majors
Number Score Percentile
Bio-Chem/Molec Biology 28 520 50.6%
Biology 78 704 72.5%
Chemistry 44 686 53.8%
Computer Science 21 711 67.3%
Economics 3 793 86.0%
Geology 14 566 48.4%
Mathematics 26 821 60.2%
Mathematics Re-scaled 11 692 66.6%
Music 1 590 81.0%
Physics 43 664 49.2%
Psychology 22 655 77.8%
Other Majors
Number Score Percentile
Biology 4 710 75.8%
Geology 3 597 63.7%
Mathematics Re-scaled 1 600 46.0%