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Placement Testing
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To ensure proper placement in English and mathematics courses, a student entering The Art Institute of Philadelphia is required to take the ASSET/COMPASS test to determine skill level in writing, reading, and math (including algebra). Exceptions to the ASSET/COMPASS test are granted to those incoming students with transferable college credits in mathematics and/or English. Students who have earned scores of 500 or higher in the verbal portion of the SAT test and/or of 450 or above in the mathematics portion are exempt. Students who have earned scores of 21 or higher in the English portion of the ACT test and/or 18 or higher in the mathematics portion are also exempt. Students will be assigned to skills enhancement courses or to college-level English and mathematics based on their ASSET/COMPASS test scores, SAT scores and/or ACT scores.
In order to determine appropriate skill level Fashion Design students will be tested in basic clothing construction principles.