Test Scores

	Middle 50% of First-Year Students	Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal:	500 - 620	91%
SAT Reasoning Math:	510 - 620	91%
ACT Composite:	23 - 28	29%

SAT & ACT Policies

For admission decisions:

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

SAT or ACT writing component will be used as follows:

• For Admission
• For Placement
• For Advising
• As a validity check on the application essay

• SAT Reasoning/ACT score report due by: 15-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:
• Pacific University accepts a 4 or 5 on all AP Exams.
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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 188 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	53	3
American Literature	53	3
Analysis and Interpretation of Literature	53	3
Biology	53	4
Calculus	53	4
Chemistry	53	4
College Algebra	53	4
College Algebra-Trigonometry	53	4
College French-Level 1	53	3
College French-Level 2	53	3
College German- Level 1	53	3
College German-Level 2	53	3
College Mathematics	53	4
College Spanish-Level 1	53	3
College Spanish-Level 2	53	3
English Composition	53	3
English Composition with Essay	53	3
English Literature	53	3
Freshman College Composition	53	3
History of the United States I	53	3
History of the United States II	53	3
Human Growth and Development	53	3
Humanities	53	3
Information Systems and Computer Application	53	3
Introductory Business Law	53	3
Introductory Educational Psychology	53	3
Introductory Psychology	53	3
Introductory Sociology	53	3
Natural Sciences	53	4
Precalculus	--	--
Principles of Accounting	53	3
Principles of Macroeconomics	53	3
Principles of Management	53	3
Principles of Marketing	53	3
Principles of Microeconomics	53	3
Social Sciences and History	53	3
Trigonometry	53	3
Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648	53	3
Western Civilization II: 1648 to Present	53	3