by the commission as "substantially exceeding standards" every year since that classification was created in 2003.
Admission to Winthrop is defined by U.S. News & Report as “selective” with an acceptance rate of 69%. The average freshman had a 3.98 high school GPA and received an SAT (CR+M) score between 980-1200 and an ACT score between 19 and 25.
== Student life ==
The university has 6,073 students. Undergraduate students come from 42 U.S. states and 45 countries. There are 135 undergraduate international students enrolled. The majority of Winthrop's students are from South Carolina, with out-of-state and foreign students accounting for 13% of undergraduate enrollment.
Of the student population, 5,014 are undergraduate students and 1,059 are graduate students. In 2012, the student body was 29 percent male and 71 percent female, and 28 percent African-American and 60 percent white, non-Hispanic.
The university's average size of undergraduate lecture courses is 22 students. All freshman and second-year students …
