have encouraged such students to write a brief essay indicating why they would like to be in the DHI and how they would contribute to it. Nine students were admitted into the DHI by way of this process of special petition. The statistics on the next page disclose a general profile of the students recruited into the DHI for the fall of 2013. More can be learned about these DHI students as one looks at comparable figures for incoming non-DHI students who are registered for this next year. Their average GPA is 3.12, their average SAT is 940, their average ACT is 19.9, and their average class rank is 42.5%. This group of students comes from 19 different states and they are about 50:50 on the female-to-male ratio. Total number of students invited into the DHI Total number of students accepting the DHI invitation Total number of students recruited into the DHI from our student body
415 62 2
Average GPA of all students invited into the DHI Average GPA of students accepting the DHI invitation
3.88 3.85
Average SAT of all students invited into the DHI Average SAT of students accepting the DHI invitation
1098 1083
Average ACT of all students invited into the DHI Average ACT of students accepting the DHI invitation
24.7 24.8
Average class rank of all students invited into the DHI Average class rank of students accepting the DHI invitation
11.7% 15.2%
Percentage of students accepting the DHI invitation who are female Percentage of students accepting the DHI invitation who are male
65% 35%
Number of students accepting the DHI invitation who chose DHI Housing Percentage of students accepting the DHI invitation who chose DHI Housing
47 76%
Geographical distribution of students accepting the DHI invitation: FL 1 MD 1 NY 3 OH 13
PA 44
Number of freshmen students registered at Thiel who declined the DHI invitation 25 Number of freshmen students registered last year who had declined Honors 53 Number of strong DHI commits lost to other schools in April-May
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As we look ahead to the upcoming academic year, there will be 62 freshmen, 14 sophomores, 9 juniors, 7 seniors in the Dietrich Honors Institute. That makes a total of 92 DHI students. We hope to see that total increase to 160 next year. 18