Test Scores

	Middle 50% of First-Year Students	Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Reasoning Verbal:	440 - 540	87%
SAT Reasoning Math:	450 - 550	87%
ACT Composite:	18 - 22	48%

SAT & ACT Policies

For admission decisions:

• SAT Reasoning or ACT Required (ACT writing optional)

SAT or ACT writing component will be used as follows:

• No college policy as of now

• 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:
• All Advanced Placement courses and tests are administered by high schools and should be completed before entering USC Upstate. An entering student who passed 30 hours of AP credit may be granted sophomore standing upon enrollment.

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	--
American Literature	50	--
Analysis and Interpretation of Literature	49	--
Biology	50	--
Calculus	47	--
Chemistry	50	--
College Algebra	45	--
College Algebra-Trigonometry	45	--
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	48	--
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	51	--
Introductory Educational Psychology	--	--
Introductory Psychology	50	--
Introductory Sociology	50	--
Natural Sciences	--	--
Precalculus	--	--
Principles of Accounting	47	--
Principles of Macroeconomics	48	--
Principles of Management	47	--
Principles of Marketing	50	--
Principles of Microeconomics	47	--
Social Sciences and History	--	--
Trigonometry	50	--
Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648	--	--
Western Civilization II: 1648 to Present	--	--