Test Scores

	Middle 50% of First-Year Students	Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal:	530 - 660	92%
SAT Reasoning Math:	520 - 630	92%
ACT Composite:	24 - 28	30%

SAT & ACT Policies

For admission decisions:

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

For placement:

• SAT
• ACT
• AP
• CLEP

SAT or ACT writing component will be used as follows:

• No college policy as of now

• SAT Reasoning/ACT score report due by: 15-MAY
• 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:
• Houghton College grants credit for nearly 2 dozen different AP Exams. The mininum score required is a 4 and generally provides 3 hours of credit. (Sometimes 4 hours of credit are granted depending upon the exam.)
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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	64	3
American Literature	54	6
Analysis and Interpretation of Literature	52	3
Biology	56	8
Calculus	60	4
Chemistry	62	8
College Algebra	--	--
College Algebra-Trigonometry	57	3
College French-Level 1	54	6
College French-Level 2	60	3
College German- Level 1	54	6
College German-Level 2	61	3
College Mathematics	--	--
College Spanish-Level 1	54	6
College Spanish-Level 2	60	3
English Composition	--	--
English Composition with Essay	--	--
English Literature	54	6
Freshman College Composition	53	3
History of the United States I	53	3
History of the United States II	54	3
Human Growth and Development	62	3
Humanities	--	--
Information Systems and Computer Application	59	3
Introductory Business Law	59	3
Introductory Educational Psychology	54	3
Introductory Psychology	53	8
Introductory Sociology	58	3
Natural Sciences	--	--
Precalculus	--	--
Principles of Accounting	52	6
Principles of Macroeconomics	53	3
Principles of Management	55	3
Principles of Marketing	61	3
Principles of Microeconomics	53	3
Social Sciences and History	--	--
Trigonometry	--	--
Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648	55	2
Western Civilization II: 1648 to Present	55	2