UNIVERSITY ADMISSION POLICIES

Highly selective institutions admit first-time, full-time degree-seeking students, and transfer students who have completed 23 or fewer credit hours, who attain a combined percentile score, resulting from the addition of their high school percentile rank and the percentile rank attained on a nationally normed test, i.e., ACT or SAT, which equals or exceeds 140 points. Students achieving a score of 27 or better on the ACT College Entrance Examination, or its equivalent on the SAT, are automatically admitted to highly selective institutions.

No more than 10 percent of the first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshman class will have a combined percentile score of 139 or less.

Selective institutions admit first-time, full-time degree-seeking students, and transfer students who have completed 23 or fewer credit hours, who attain a combined percentile score, resulting from the addition of their high school percentile rank and the percentile rank attained on a nationally normed test, i.e., ACT or SAT, which equals or exceeds 120 points. Students achieving a score of 24 or better on the ACT College Entrance Examination, or its equivalent on the SAT, are automatically admitted to selective institutions.

No more than 10 percent of the first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshman class will have a combined percentile score of 119 or less.

Moderately selective institutions admit first-time, full-time degree-seeking students, and transfer students who have completed 23 or few credit hours, who attain a combined percentile score, resulting from the addition of their high school percentile rank and the percentile rank attained on a nationally normed test, i.e., ACT or SAT, which equals or exceeds 100 points. Students achieving a score of 21 or better on the ACT College Entrance Examination, or its equivalent on the SAT, are automatically admitted to moderately selective institutions.

No more than 10 percent of the first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshman class will have a combined percentile score of 99 or less.

Open-enrollment institutions may admit any Missouri resident with a high school diploma or its equivalent as a first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshman. Open access to a particular institution, however, does not guarantee access to selected programs which may have additional institutionally approved admission criteria. It is recognized that public two-year colleges must provide open enrollment.