| SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE CDS FOR 2006-07 | |
| The items listed below are shaded in yellow throughout the spreadsheet's worksheets. | |
| CHANGED ITEMS | |
| C8a | Removed the “SAT and SAT Subject Tests required” option as colleges with that policy can simply check off “SAT required” and “SAT Subject Tests” required. |
| C8c | Reworded - C. Please indicate how your institution will use the SAT or ACT essay component; check all that apply. |
| C8c | Added a check box for "Not using essay component" |
| C9 | Added - Do not to convert SAT scores to ACT scores and vice versa. |
| C9 | Added – SAT Writing; SAT Essay; ACT Writing; SAT Verbal reworded to SAT Critical Reading |
| C9 | Added column for SAT Writing |
| E1 | Rewording - Cooperative (work study) program reworded to “cooperative education program”. Definition, page 30, uses new term. |
| F1 | New instruction: for students from out of state, exclude international students from the numerator and denominator. |
| H2a | Deleted the qualifier “not external” from the instruction |
| H | Financial Aid Definitions changes: |
| Institutional scholarships and grants | |
| External scholarships and grants | |
| H1 | Definition clarified to read: Institutional: Endowed scholarships, annual gifts and tuition funded grants, awarded by the college, excluding athletic aid and tuition waivers (which are reported below). |
| H4 and H5 | Revised to capture indebtedness through alternative loans separately. |
| I-1 | Clarifies that the full time instructional faculty definitions are from AAUP, but the part time definitions are not from AAUP. |
| PERMANENTLY DELETED OR TEMPORARILY DISCONTINUED ITEMS | |
| C20 | Common Application Question – removed. |
| E4-E8 | The "Library Collections" section has been removed until a new Academic Libraries Survey is in the field. |