Test Scores

	Middle 50% of First-Year Students	Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal:	-	%
SAT Reasoning Math:	-	%
ACT Composite:	19 - 24	95%

SAT & ACT Policies

For admission decisions:

• SAT Reasoning or ACT Required

• SAT Reasoning/ACT score report due by: 01-AUG
• 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:
• Students admitted to NIU with sufficiently high scores on certain AP exams may receive college course credit from NIU. AP is not required for admission. Credit is not posted on the student record unit the end of the 15th day of the student's first enrollment. Credit is posted on the student record with the symbol CR. No specific grade is attached to this credit.
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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; then click on Credit by Exam.)

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	53	3
American Literature	50	3
Analysis and Interpretation of Literature	--	--
Biology	--	--
Calculus	41	4
Chemistry	47	8
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	46	3
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	44	3
Principles of Management	--	--
Principles of Marketing	--	--
Principles of Microeconomics	41	3
Social Sciences and History	--	--
Trigonometry	--	--
Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648	--	--
Western Civilization II: 1648 to Present	--	--