Test Scores

	Middle 50% of First-Year Students	Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal:	500 - 630	8%
SAT Reasoning Math:	500 - 620	8%
ACT Composite:	21 - 27	97%

SAT & ACT Policies

For admission decisions:

• SAT Reasoning or ACT Required (ACT writing optional)

For placement:

• Institution

SAT or ACT writing component will be used as follows:

• No college policy as of now

• SAT Reasoning/ACT score report due by: 15-AUG
• SAT Subject score report due by: 15-AUG

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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• From the college:
• All Advanced Placement courses are subject to departmental review of scores and/or booklet before credit is awarded. AP scores must be 3 or above to receive Carthage 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	50	4
American Literature	50	4
Analysis and Interpretation of Literature	51	4
Biology	50	4
Calculus	50	4
Chemistry	48	4
College Algebra	50	4
College Algebra-Trigonometry	50	4
College French-Level 1	--	--
College French-Level 2	--	--
College German- Level 1	--	--
College German-Level 2	--	--
College Mathematics	--	--
College Spanish-Level 1	--	--
College Spanish-Level 2	--	--
English Composition	--	--
English Composition with Essay	--	--
English Literature	50	4
Freshman College Composition	50	4
History of the United States I	49	4
History of the United States II	49	4
Human Growth and Development	50	4
Humanities	--	--
Information Systems and Computer Application	47	4
Introductory Business Law	51	4
Introductory Educational Psychology	50	4
Introductory Psychology	50	4
Introductory Sociology	51	4
Natural Sciences	--	--
Precalculus	--	--
Principles of Accounting	52	4
Principles of Macroeconomics	50	4
Principles of Management	50	4
Principles of Marketing	50	4
Principles of Microeconomics	50	4
Social Sciences and History	--	--
Trigonometry	49	4
Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648	50	4
Western Civilization II: 1648 to Present	50	4