An applicant who has graduated from high school or earned high school equivalency will be classified as a freshman student. Traditional freshmen have attended high school within the last five years. Non-traditional freshmen have been out of high school for more than five years. A freshman may have college credit from another institution, but it is fewer than 30 transferable semester hours or 45 transferable quarter hours.

A freshman application must submit the following items in order to be considered for admission:

1. Application for Admission
• Application is available online or in print
2. $30 Non-refundable Application Fee
3. Certificate of Immunization
4. Official High School Transcript
5. Official SAT or ACT Scores* (requirement for degree seeking, traditional freshmen applicants)
6. Compass Exam scores**
7. Georgia High School Graduation Test Scores***

*All degree seeking, traditional freshmen applicants must meet the following minimum admission criteria:

• SAT Verbal/Critical Reading score of 330 or ACT English of 14 AND
• SAT Math score of 310 or ACT Math score of 12 AND
• Freshman Index of 1830
  • The Freshman Index is calculated as follows:
  • SAT : Freshman Index = (Academic High School GPA x 500) + SAT Verbal/Critical Reading + SAT Math
  • ACT: Freshman Index = (Academic High School GPA x 500) + (ACT Composite x 42) + 88

**An application can exempt from the Compass Exam if they have:

• SAT Verbal/Critical Reading scores or 450 or higher and SAT Math score of 500 or higher
• ACT English score of 19 or higher and ACT Math score of 21 or higher
• Completed English 1101 with a “C” or better and College Algebra with a “C” or better

***Required of student graduating in 2010 and later from a Georgia high school.

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