Test Scores

	Middle 50% of First-Year Students	Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal:	480 - 570	14%
SAT Reasoning Math:	510 - 610	14%
ACT Composite:	22 - 27	97%

SAT & ACT Policies

For admission decisions:

• SAT Reasoning or ACT Required (ACT writing optional)

For placement:

• SAT
• ACT
• CLEP

• 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:
• Students entering the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology as freshmen, who have completed an honors course in high school and who have taken and successfully passed the appropriate College Entrance Examination Board Advanced Placement Exam with a score of 3,4, or 5, may be selected for advanced course work.
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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	3
American Literature	--	--
Analysis and Interpretation of Literature	--	--
Biology	50	8
Calculus	51	4
Chemistry	50	4
College Algebra	51	3
College Algebra-Trigonometry	54	3
College French-Level 1	39	4
College French-Level 2	45	11
College German- Level 1	36	4
College German-Level 2	42	11
College Mathematics	--	--
College Spanish-Level 1	45	4
College Spanish-Level 2	50	11
English Composition	--	--
English Composition with Essay	--	--
English Literature	--	--
Freshman College Composition	60	3
History of the United States I	50	3
History of the United States II	50	3
Human Growth and Development	--	--
Humanities	--	--
Information Systems and Computer Application	--	--
Introductory Business Law	--	--
Introductory Educational Psychology	--	--
Introductory Psychology	50	3
Introductory Sociology	50	3
Natural Sciences	--	--
Precalculus	--	--
Principles of Accounting	50	6
Principles of Macroeconomics	50	3
Principles of Management	--	--
Principles of Marketing	--	--
Principles of Microeconomics	50	3
Social Sciences and History	--	--
Trigonometry	--	--
Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648	50	3
Western Civilization II: 1648 to Present	50	3