Test Scores

	Middle 50% of First-Year Students	Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal:	640 - 750	61%
SAT Reasoning Math:	640 - 730	61%
ACT Composite:	29 - 33	38%

SAT & ACT Policies

For admission decisions:

• SAT Reasoning or ACT Required (ACT writing optional)
• SAT Subject Tests Considered if Submitted

SAT or ACT writing component will be used as follows:

• For Advising

• SAT Reasoning/ACT score report due by: 20-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:
• Grinnell grants credit for AP Examinations as outlined in our College Catalog and on our website.
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• Want detailed information about this college's AP policy?
• Go to the college's Web site to learn more.

AP and Admission

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• From the college:
• As a highly selective institution renowned for its academic rigor, Grinnell College seeks students who have consistently challenged themselves in their secondary school program. Grinnell is pleased to recognize the motivation and achievement of students who have undertaken the challenge of Advanced Placement classes and examinations. The Office of Admission considers students' enrollment and performance in AP classes, when available at their school, as an indication both of their motivation to seek an academic challenge and of their ability to succeed in an academically rigorous collegiate program.

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	--	--