1120 Freshman Applicants - Associate’s Level

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• An applicant born and educated in the United States.
• An applicant who graduated or would have graduated from high school five (5) or fewer years ago. This includes students who earned a GED diploma.
• A beginning freshman or a student who has a previous college or university attendance, but fewer than 30 credit hours that Perimeter College can accept.

Admissions Requirements

1. Grade Point Average (GPA) of 2.0 or higher on your official SACS or regionally accredited high school transcript. Perimeter College will recalculate the GPA based upon University System of Georgia approved Required High School Curriculum (RHSC) coursework.
2. Perimeter College’s Application for Admission accompanied by a $20 non-refundable fee
   • Perimeter College’s application is available online.
   • A Perimeter College’s application is valid for three (3) consecutive terms, including the term of application.
3. Official SACS or regionally accredited high school transcript with date of graduation
   • Official Transcript with date of graduation from a SACS or regionally accredited High School.
   • Certificates of Performance or Special Education diplomas are not acceptable.
   • Applicants who have not completed high school are required to submit official GED, HiSet or TASC passing scores and high school transcript.
4. Official transcript from each college, university or technical college attended
   • This applies only to applicants with less than 30 transferable credit hours.
   • Speak to the registrar at your former institution(s) to send transcripts to Perimeter College’s.

Testing

Our testing and admissions guidelines allow us to place more emphasis on the evaluation of an applicant’s high school grade point average and the collegiate-ready courses they complete.

• Students with a recalculated GPA of 3.2 or higher are not required to submit test scores
• Students with a recalculated GPA of 2.5 - 3.19 will be placed into co-requisite English and math courses unless they submit test scores that indicate they are college-ready
• Minimum test scores are required for non-traditional students, students submitting GED scores, and freshmen with recalculated high school GPAs below 2.5

Minimum scores for collegiate placement are SAT (480 Evidence-Based Reading and Writing/440 Math), ACT (17 English or Reading and 17 Math) or ACCUPLACER (before January 2019: 67 Elementary Algebra/61 Reading/4-8 Writeplacer; after January 2019: 258 Nex-Gen QAS Math/237 Nex-Gen Reading/4-8 Writeplacer).