Test Scores

	Middle 50% of First-Year Students	Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal:	610 - 690	99%
SAT Reasoning Math:	600 - 760	99%
ACT Composite:	-	1%

SAT & ACT Policies

For admission decisions:

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

For placement:

• AP

SAT or ACT writing component will be used as follows:

• For Advising
• As a validity check on the application essay

• SAT Reasoning/ACT score report due by: 01-FEB
• SAT Subject score report due by: 01-FEB

Other test policies:

Institutional exams required for art and architecture students.

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:
• Credit is granted for Calculus BC, Chemistry, Physics C, European History, English Literature, Computer Science, Biology. 4 is needed for all other than Physics which a 5 is needed and a departmental exam. We advise meeting with your faculty prior to finalizing the first year schedule--not every student should necessarily take the credit granted to them.
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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 page 15 of the PDF file.)

AP and Admission

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• From the college:
• Cooper Union is a highly selective institution that receives applications from many gifted students. The requirements for admission are very different depending on the area of interest. Therefore, different subjects carry different weight in the admissions process. For School of Art, a student is mainly admitted based on talent and artwork. For School of Architecture, more emphasis is placed on math, so an AP class in math would be very attractive. For School of Engineering, we look at the whole package. We like to see students that can perform well in a challenging curriculum.

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	--	--