Test Scores

	Middle 50% of First-Year Students	Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal:	550 - 630	96%
SAT Reasoning Math:	560 - 640	96%
ACT Composite:	23 - 27	20%

SAT & ACT Policies

For admission decisions:

• SAT Reasoning or ACT Required (ACT writing optional)

SAT or ACT writing component will be used as follows:

• For Admission

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

Other test policies:

SAT Subject Tests in English, math, and language recommended for placement. SAT Subject Tests in biology and chemistry recommended for nursing and science majors.

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:
• Fairfield University will award three or four hours credit toward graduation for each AP course taken by a student provided that the student has taken an Advanced Placement Exam prepared by the College Board program and obtained an exam score of 4 or 5. It is the discretion of college/school officials to determine if such AP credits can be used to exempt students from specific University courses or requirements. Normally, AP credit will not exempt a student from requirements in his/her major. No student will be awarded more than a total of 15 AP credits by Fairfield University.
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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 24 of the PDF file.)

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	51	3
American Literature	50	6
Analysis and Interpretation of Literature	51	6
Biology	50	6
Calculus	49	6
Chemistry	50	6
College Algebra	--	--
College Algebra-Trigonometry	--	--
College French-Level 1	46	6
College French-Level 2	61	12
College German- Level 1	39	6
College German-Level 2	54	12
College Mathematics	--	--
College Spanish-Level 1	46	6
College Spanish-Level 2	60	12
English Composition	--	--
English Composition with Essay	--	--
English Literature	49	6
Freshman College Composition	50	6
History of the United States I	49	3
History of the United States II	49	3
Human Growth and Development	51	3
Humanities	--	--
Information Systems and Computer Application	49	3
Introductory Business Law	51	3
Introductory Educational Psychology	50	3
Introductory Psychology	49	3
Introductory Sociology	51	3
Natural Sciences	--	--
Precalculus	--	--
Principles of Accounting	50	6
Principles of Macroeconomics	45	3
Principles of Management	49	3
Principles of Marketing	51	3
Principles of Microeconomics	42	3
Social Sciences and History	--	--
Trigonometry	--	--
Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648	50	3
Western Civilization II: 1648 to Present	48	3