Test Scores

	Middle 50% of First-Year Students	Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal:	470 - 570	80%
SAT Reasoning Math:	470 - 570	80%
ACT Composite:	19 - 25	18%

SAT & ACT Policies

For admission decisions:

• SAT Reasoning or ACT with writing Required
• SAT Reasoning and SAT Subject or ACT with writing Required for Some

For placement:

• SAT
• ACT
• SAT Subject Tests
• AP
• CLEP
• Institution
• State test(s): ISTEP

SAT or ACT writing component will be used as follows:

• For Admission

• SAT Reasoning/ACT score report due by: 05-JUN
• SAT Subject score report due by: Not reported

Other test policies:

Test for placement required for transfers and non-traditional freshmen.

Advanced Placement Program® (AP) Information

AP Credit and Placement Policy

• Offers credit for AP Exams:Yes
• Offers placement into higher-level courses for AP Exams: Yes
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• Want detailed information about this college's AP policy?
• Go to the college's Web site to learn more.
• (For more information, click the above link and go to the AP course list, located under the "Related Articles" link on the right side of the page.)

AP and Admission

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• From the college:
• Ball State recognizes that students who earn AP credit are typically pursuing the best possible courses their school offers. Therefore, we use the number of AP, IB, and honors courses as a factor when determining admission into the Honors College.

College-Level Examinations Program® (CLEP) Information

All CLEP exam scores range from 20 to 80. A score of 99 indicates that credit is awarded on an individually-determined basis

Exam	Minimum Grade for Credit	Credit Hours Awarded
American Government	50	3
American Literature	50	6
Analysis and Interpretation of Literature	50	6
Biology	50	3
Calculus	50	3
Chemistry	50	4
College Algebra	50	3
College Algebra-Trigonometry	50	3
College French-Level 1	50	4
College French-Level 2	50	4
College German- Level 1	50	4
College German-Level 2	50	4
College Mathematics	50	6
College Spanish-Level 1	50	4
College Spanish-Level 2	50	4
English Composition	50	6
English Composition with Essay	--	--
English Literature	50	6
Freshman College Composition	55	3
History of the United States I	50	3
History of the United States II	50	3
Human Growth and Development	50	3
Humanities	50	6
Information Systems and Computer Application	50	3
Introductory Business Law	50	3
Introductory Educational Psychology	50	3
Introductory Psychology	50	3
Introductory Sociology	50	3
Natural Sciences	50	6
Precalculus	50	3
Principles of Accounting	50	6
Principles of Macroeconomics	50	3
Principles of Management	50	3
Principles of Marketing	50	3
Principles of Microeconomics	50	3
Social Sciences and History	50	6
Trigonometry	50	3
Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648	50	3
Western Civilization II: 1648 to Present	50	3