Admissions

Students in this program would be admitted under the standard criteria used by Le Moyne College Admission that are described below.

All qualified applicants are eligible for admission regardless of race, color, age, sex, physical disability, religion or national origin. Applications for admission are available through the Office of Admission. Admission to Le Moyne is determined by the following criteria:

Applicants will typically be expected to have achieved at least an 80-percent average in academic subjects and to rank in the upper half of their class. Strength of the academic program (both the level and the courses taken) is the single most important factor in the admission decision. College policy stipulates that all freshman applicants must have a high school diploma or GED before matriculation to Le Moyne College can occur. All applicants are required to take the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT I) or the test battery of the American College Testing program (ACT). Although not primary, this additional assessment of an applicant’s achievement provides important supplemental information in determining admission to the College or to a particular program of study.

All applicants are required to submit one letter of recommendation from a guidance counselor or three letters of recommendation from teachers.

Entering students must graduate from an accredited high school and normally should complete a minimum of 16 academic units in the following distribution:

English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Foreign language*. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Mathematics **. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Natural Science. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Social Studies . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 3-4

* While three units in a foreign language is the standard, students are encouraged to continue with language through the senior year in order to best prepare for language study in college.

**Students are encouraged to complete a four-unit sequence of college preparatory mathematics courses, including, at a minimum, Algebra I, geometry and Algebra II. Students failing to achieve the minimum standard may be accepted at the discretion of the Admission Committee, but these students will be required to successfully complete a non-credit intermediate algebra course in the first year and prior to any credit bearing mathematics course. Students planning to major in biology, chemistry, mathematics or physics should make plans to complete four years of college preparatory mathematics prior to enrollment as freshmen.

Applications for transfer admission are evaluated on the strength of the academic program in college, the grades earned and the applicability of the course work to a Le Moyne degree. For students transferring to Le Moyne from regionally accredited institutions and from academic programs similar to the intended major at Le Moyne, the following guidelines usually apply:

1. The student must have earned at least a 2.6 cumulative G.P.A. for admission to most programs.
2. Proficiency in English, mathematics and the intended area of study must be demonstrated in the academic record. In mathematics, all students must have successfully completed at least the third year of college preparatory high school mathematics
3. Transfer students may use transfer credit to fulfill a core requirement when the transfer course is equivalent to the core course. In addition, transfer students may use up to two humanities courses in two different humanities departments. Students who apply transfer credits to core requirements must, notwithstanding, complete a least one core course at Le Moyne in each of the humanities: English, history, philosophy, religious studies.