Test Scores

	Middle 50% of First-Year Students	Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal:	440 - 540	73%
SAT Reasoning Math:	440 - 530	73%
ACT Composite:	18 - 21	27%

SAT & ACT Policies

For admission decisions:

• SAT Reasoning or ACT with writing Required

For placement:

• SAT Subject Tests
• 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: Not reported

Other test policies:

Proficiency in math and English required.

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:
• Students who have taken advanced-placement tests through the College Entrance Examination Board Advanced Placement Program and who score satisfactorily may obtain college credit. The score necessary for credit for a particular course is determined cooperatively by the appropriate department or school and the Registrar. Students must request that their scores be sent to Francis Marion University c/o the Office of Counseling and Testing. Advanced Placement scores obtained during high school are usually received at Francis Marion University in mid-July.
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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	6
American Literature	50	3
Analysis and Interpretation of Literature	50	3
Biology	50	8
Calculus	50	3
Chemistry	48	8
College Algebra	50	3
College Algebra-Trigonometry	50	3
College French-Level 1	50	6
College French-Level 2	50	6
College German- Level 1	50	6
College German-Level 2	--	--
College Mathematics	--	--
College Spanish-Level 1	50	6
College Spanish-Level 2	50	6
English Composition	--	--
English Composition with Essay	--	--
English Literature	50	3
Freshman College Composition	50	--
History of the United States I	50	3
History of the United States II	50	3
Human Growth and Development	50	3
Humanities	--	--
Information Systems and Computer Application	50	3
Introductory Business Law	50	3
Introductory Educational Psychology	50	3
Introductory Psychology	50	3
Introductory Sociology	50	6
Natural Sciences	--	--
Precalculus	--	--
Principles of Accounting	50	6
Principles of Macroeconomics	50	3
Principles of Management	50	--
Principles of Marketing	50	--
Principles of Microeconomics	50	3
Social Sciences and History	--	--
Trigonometry	50	3
Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648	50	3
Western Civilization II: 1648 to Present	50	3