Admissions Requirements

Planning ahead is always a good idea, so when you’re mapping out your class schedule over the next year or two, make sure to include the most rigorous college-prep courses your high school offers. And, of course, we want to see a minimum of 20 core academic units, including:

• Four years of English
• Three years of a single foreign language*
• Three years of mathematics
• Two years of laboratory science
• Two years of history or social science
• Two years of other college prep electives
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  ^{*Scoring 640+ on a foreign language SAT Subject Test or receiving a score of a 4+ on an AP foreign language exam or scoring a 6+ on an International Baccalaureate foreign language exam will also satisfy the foreign language requirement.}

In order to get into Colby, you’ll need to provide us with standardized test results. We use these scores as the standard measure when reviewing applications. If you take the test more than once, go ahead and send us all of your scores to ensure that we have your best performance on record. At a minimum we’ll need an official score report sent by the testing agency from one of the following tests:

• College Board SAT Reasoning Test or
• American College Test (ACT)* or
• SAT Subject Tests in three different subject areas
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  ^{*If you're only submitting the ACT, we recommend taking the writing test too}

If you’re an international student whose first language is not English or whose medium of secondary school instruction has not been English, we’ll also need results from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).