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Requirements for Standardized College Entrance Examinations
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All freshmen are required to take a U.S. standardized college
entrance examination, regardless of your citizenship/visa status
or whether you have attended secondary school in the U.S. or
abroad. Transfer students are not required to take this exam.
The Office of Admissions and Orientation will accept either
the SAT I (Scholastic Achievement Test: Reasoning Tests) or the
ACT (American College Test). You must take one or the other of
these tests (it is not necessary to take both). These tests are
available throughout the world, and should be taken well in
advance of the intended starting term. SAT and ACT scores take 6-8
weeks after the test date to arrive at UM–Dearborn. You may take
the test(s) more than once, and UM–Dearborn will consider only
your highest composite score.
Your score will be used as one factor in the admissions
process. The standard requirement for U.S. students is a composite
score of 22 on the ACT or 1030 on the SAT, but flexibility is
possible in certain cases. If your secondary education has been
completed partially or entirely abroad, and if English is not your
native language, your individual circumstances will be considered
when evaluating your test scores.
For students with international backgrounds, the score
required for admission in each case will depend on various other
factors, such as high school courses and grades, and English
proficiency test scores (if requested).
After reviewing ACT or SAT results, an English proficiency
test may be required for nonnative speakers of English, and may be
used as a positive factor to offset a low ACT or SAT score. Please
read information on English
proficiency testing.
For information and registration materials for the ACT or SAT,
please contact your high school counselor if you are in the U.S.,
or contact the testing agencies directly if you are currently
living abroad:
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SAT
College Board ATP
P.O. Box 6200
Princeton, NJ 08451, U.S.A.
Phone: 609-771-7600
www.sat.org
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ACT
P.O. Box 414
Iowa City, Iowa 52443, U.S.A.
Phone: 319-337-1270
www.act.org
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