Test Scores

	Middle 50% of First-Year Students	Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal:	430 - 530	97%
SAT Reasoning Math:	450 - 550	97%
ACT Composite:	-	21%

SAT & ACT Policies

For admission decisions:

• SAT Reasoning Test Required for Some
• SAT Subject Tests Required for Some

• SAT Reasoning/ACT score report due by: 31-JAN
• SAT Subject score report due by: Not reported

Other test policies:

SAT scores can be used to meet English or math proficiency requirements.

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: Not reported
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• From the college:
• Cal State San Marcos grants credit towards its undergraduate degrees for successful completion of AP Exams. Students who present scores of 3 or better will be granted up to 6 semester units of University credit with the following provision: acceptance of AP units for purposes other than lower-division electives is determined by the appropriate academic or discipline division. There is no maximum number of units that a student may earn for AP credit.
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• Want detailed information about this college's AP policy?
• Go to the college's Web site to learn more.

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	47	3
American Literature	46	6
Analysis and Interpretation of Literature	49	6
Biology	46	6
Calculus	51	6
Chemistry	47	6
College Algebra	49	3
College Algebra-Trigonometry	45	3
College French-Level 1	39	6
College French-Level 2	45	12
College German- Level 1	40	6
College German-Level 2	48	12
College Mathematics	--	--
College Spanish-Level 1	41	6
College Spanish-Level 2	50	12
English Composition	--	--
English Composition with Essay	--	--
English Literature	46	6
Freshman College Composition	47	6
History of the United States I	45	3
History of the United States II	45	3
Human Growth and Development	45	3
Humanities	--	--
Information Systems and Computer Application	52	3
Introductory Business Law	51	3
Introductory Educational Psychology	47	3
Introductory Psychology	47	3
Introductory Sociology	47	3
Natural Sciences	--	--
Precalculus	--	--
Principles of Accounting	47	6
Principles of Macroeconomics	48	3
Principles of Management	47	3
Principles of Marketing	48	3
Principles of Microeconomics	47	3
Social Sciences and History	--	--
Trigonometry	50	3
Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648	46	3
Western Civilization II: 1648 to Present	47	3