Or Students can demonstrate completion of Reading and Writing Skills 2 through placement scores in this range:
Classic Accuplacer: Reading and Sentence Skills combined score 166 or higher
Accuplacer Next-Generation: Reading score 257 or higher OR Accuplacer Next-Generation: WritePlacer Score score 6 or higher (effective Jan. 28, 2019)
ACT: Reading score 18 or higher, and English score 16 or higher
SAT: Verbal/Critical Reading score 330 or higher (old score) SAT: Verbal/Critical Reading score 19 or higher (new score)
Combined Accuplacer and ACT scores *
ACT English 16 or higher, and Accuplacer Reading 80 or higher
ACT Reading 18 or higher, and Accuplacer Sentence Skills 85 or higher
Or PARCC*:
English and Reading-ELA/Literacy level 4 or 5 at grade 11
Or High School Transcript: (all of the following must be met) ‡
High School GPA must be 2.5 or greater.
Student must have graduated with a Diploma.
An Official Transcript must be presented to Enrollment Services.
* If listed as a pre- or corequisite, these can be taken at the same time as the referring course.
‡ Please meet with an academic coach if you are using these scores to meet this skill level.
Students with this level of skill in reading and writing are able to perform at level one skill and have developed reading, reasoning, and writing processes for academic success that also include critical reading and thinking skills. Students can determine the credibility and proper use of sources and can write organized, logical, and grammatically correct paragraphs.