ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
IF ENGLISH IS YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE
If English is your native language or the language of instruction in school, you must submit one of the following:
- SAT: At or above 500 in Evidence-Based Reading &Writing; combined score at or above 1000
- ACT: At or above 21 in English & Reading; combined score at or above 21
- A/O Levels: Above Average
The Core will challenge how you think about yourself, the world, and everything in it. It’s designed to provoke (sometimes heated) discussion. Our graduates say that it actually changes the way their minds work – a function that they can never turn off.
Philip Weltner, Oglethorpe’s president from 1944-1953 and founder of the Core, once said “Oglethorpe University insists that the object is not to pass a subject; the object is to take and keep it.” The Core is designed to ensure that what you learn, you keep.
IF ENGLISH IS NOT YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE
If English is not your native language, you must submit one of the following:
- CEFR: At or above C1-1
- ELS: Completed Level 112
- TOEFL: At or above 79 internet-based, 213 computer-based, 550 paper-based
- IELTS: At or above 6.5
- ESL: Completed Level 7
- Duolingo English Exam: At or above 105
