Test Scores

	Middle 50% of First-Year Students	Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal:	630 - 710	86%
SAT Reasoning Math:	650 - 720	86%
ACT Composite:	29 - 32	14%

SAT & ACT Policies

For admission decisions:

• SAT Reasoning or ACT Required (ACT writing optional)

For placement:

• SAT
• SAT Subject Tests
• Institution

SAT or ACT writing component will be used as follows:

• For Placement

• SAT Reasoning/ACT score report due by: 15-JAN
• SAT Subject score report due by: Not reported

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:
• Colgate credit is normally granted only to first-year students who achieve a 4 or 5 on the College Board's Advanced Placement Exams and when a department certifies that the exam score indicates a level of competence equivalent to the completion of a specific Colgate course.
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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 scroll down to the section on "Advanced Placement and Pre-matriculation Credit.")

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	--	--
American Literature	--	--
Analysis and Interpretation of Literature	--	--
Biology	--	--
Calculus	--	--
Chemistry	--	--
College Algebra	--	--
College Algebra-Trigonometry	--	--
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	--	--
Freshman College Composition	--	--
History of the United States I	--	--
History of the United States II	--	--
Human Growth and Development	--	--
Humanities	--	--
Information Systems and Computer Application	--	--
Introductory Business Law	--	--
Introductory Educational Psychology	--	--
Introductory Psychology	--	--
Introductory Sociology	--	--
Natural Sciences	--	--
Precalculus	--	--
Principles of Accounting	--	--
Principles of Macroeconomics	--	--
Principles of Management	--	--
Principles of Marketing	--	--
Principles of Microeconomics	--	--
Social Sciences and History	--	--
Trigonometry	--	--
Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648	--	--
Western Civilization II: 1648 to Present	--	--