ACT has been a leader in measuring college and career readiness trends since 1959. Each August, ACT releases The Condition of College & Career Readiness (www.act.org/newsroom/data/2015), an annual report on the progress of the ACT-tested graduating class relative to college readiness. Nationally, a record 59% of the 2015 graduating class took…

This is the 22nd annual report of national normative data on the characteristics of students attending American colleges and universities as first-time, full-time freshmen. The normative data are reported separately for men and women, and for 35 groupings of institutions. The major stratifying factors are institutional race (predominantly black…