Admissions Factors

Colleges That Consider Character

132 of 149 colleges say they weigh character and personal qualities. 45 rate it very important and 17 do not consider it.

Not considered (17)

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Which colleges do not consider character and personal qualities?

17 of the 149 colleges here rate it "not considered": Arizona State University Campus Immersion, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, California State University-Long Beach, Florida Atlantic University, Houston, Kansas, Mississippi State University, Ole Miss, Penn State, San Diego State, San Jose State University, UIC, University of California-Riverside, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of South Carolina-Columbia, University of South Florida, West Virginia.

Which colleges rate character and personal qualities as very important?

45 colleges: Barnard College, Bates, Bowdoin, Brown, California Institute of Technology, Carleton, Carnegie Mellon University, Claremont McKenna, College of William & Mary, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Davidson, Duke, Emory, Georgetown University, Georgia Tech, Haverford, Miami University-Oxford, Middlebury, MIT, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Penn, Pomona, Princeton, Rice, Rochester, Stanford University, Swarthmore, Syracuse University, Tufts, UIUC, UNC Chapel Hill, University at Albany, University of Chicago, USC, Vanderbilt, Vassar, Wake Forest, WashU, Wellesley, Williams, Yale University.

Each college's own Common Data Set, Section C (first-time, first-year admission). Last checked 2026-10-08. Each rating is the college’s own answer on its Common Data Set. Colleges that left the row blank are left out.