Florida Gulf Coast University aims to promptly notify students of their admission status. Students are typically notified within three to four weeks, from the time that their application for admissions is completed. (All portions of the application form completed and submitted with fee, all official transcripts and official test scores received).  Students interested in applying for Financial Aid and Housing should also be aware of priority deadlines that exist.

All Freshman applicants must show proof that they are high school graduates or in the process of graduating from high school or have a GED certificate.

• Official high school transcripts reflecting courses completed from ninth grade through the eleventh grade must be sent by the applicant's high school to FGCU when the applicant applies to FGCU. *NOTE* A final high school transcript showing date of graduation will be required following high school graduation.
• Applicants who hold a GED must submit official GED test score results.
• Letters of Recommendation, Personal Statements, and Essays are not required for admission and will only be used when an applicant does not meet minimum requirements or if admissibility by regular admission requirements is questionable.

Transcripts and test scores received and opened by the university may not be transferred to a third party or the applicant and become the sole property of FGCU.

Florida Gulf Coast University requires that applicants be graduates of a Florida public or regionally accredited high school, or its equivalent, and have completed 18 Carnegie units which are year-long courses and not remedial in nature. FGCU requires that an applicant have an acceptable cumulative high school grade point average in the following academic units as computed by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions:

• Four units of English (at least three with substantial writing requirements)
• Four units of Mathematics (Algebra 1 and above)
• Three units of Natural Science (at least two with laboratory)
• Three units of Social Science
• Two units of the same Foreign Language
• Two elective units preferably from English, Mathematics, Natural Science, Foreign Language, Humanities, or Social Science area.

Florida Gulf Coast University requires that applicants submit test scores. Scores from the American College Test (ACT) or the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) are required of all applicants for freshman admissions. Either of these tests should be taken as soon as possible and ALL official test scores sent to FGCU. Information about these tests may be obtained from your high school counselor or by writing:

Your test scores may not be on your high school transcript, so we advise students to request that they be directly sent to FGCU through the ACT or College Board.  Please note that it will take 3-4 weeks for us to receive and process the scores from the date they are delivered to the students via the web.  We do not encourage students to request and pay for rush reporting from either the College Board or American College Testing Program.

SAT Test Date Delivery - http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/scores.html

ACT Test Date Delivery - http://actstudent.org/scores/early/index/html

FTIC students may be considered for admission based on the following criteria:

***ATTENTION:  If taking the ACT, the ACT Writing Test is required.  You must take both the English and Writing Tests in the same session to receive Writing scores.***

• An FTIC student may be admitted if he/she has a high school grade point average (GPA) of 3.00 or higher on a 4.00 scale as calculated by the University, paired with one of the standardized admission tests.  A student must achieve the minimum scores for each SAT Reasoning Test or ACT section as outlined below:
  • SAT - Critical Reading >= 440 or ACT - Reading >= 18 and ACT - English >=17, and
  • SAT - Mathematics >= 440 or ACT - Mathematics >= 19, and
  • SAT - Writing >= 440 or ACT - Combined English/Writing >= 18 OR
    
    
• An FTIC student may be admitted if he/she has a high school GPA of 2.50 - 2.99 on a 4.00 scale as calculated by the university.  In addition to achieving the minimum GPA, a student must achieve the minimum scores for each SAT Reasoning Test or ACT section as outlined below:
  • SAT - Critical Reading >= 460 or ACT - Reading >= 19 and ACT - English >=17, and
  • SAT - Mathematics >= 460 or ACT - Mathematics >= 19, and
  • SAT - Writing >= 440 or ACT - Combined English/Writing >= 18.

Secondary Academic Unit Requirements

A freshman applicant must complete the secondary academic unit requirements as listed in the following table:

• Any student applying for admission who completed a non-traditional high school program of study which is not measured in Carnegie Units such as home schooling or a student who presents a General Equivalency Diploma (GED) instead of a standard high school diploma, must present a score of at least 1450 on the SAT (Critical Reading + Math + Writing) or a 21 composite on the ACT.  In addition to achieving the minimum total score or composite, a student must achieve the minimum sub-scores for each SAT Reasoning Test or ACT section as outlined below:
  
  • SAT - Critical Reading >= 460 or ACT - Reading >= 19 and ACT - English >=17, and
  • SAT - Mathematics >= 460 or ACT - Mathematics >= 19, and
  • SAT - Writing >= 440 or ACT - Combined English/Writing >= 18.
    
    
  In other words, if a transcript is provided without courses or grades where a GPA cannot be calculated, these minimum scores must be presented to be admitted.  If the home-school does provide a transcript with courses and grades where a GPA can be calculated, the admission criteria above will used to determine admissibility.
  
  
• This admission criteria is also true for those applicants who hold a degree, equivalent to a US high school diploma, from an out of country school where the evaluating agency does not provide FGCU with an overall GPA. If the evaluating agency does provide a GPA, the admission criteria above will be used to determine admissibility.  

An FTIC applicant who meets the State University System Minimum Freshman Eligibility Index for Admission Consideration is not guaranteed admission to the University, even though everything possible will be done to admit all qualified applicants who apply by posted admission deadlines. However, if the number of qualified FTIC applicants exceeds the number the University is permitted to enroll in a given term, admission will be on a selective basis.

Most students accepted to the University present a 3.3 high school grade point average and test scores of at least 22 on the ACT and 1510 on the SAT I.

Foreign Language Requirement

All students admitted must satisfy or meet exemption qualifications from the state foreign language admission requirement. American Sign Language satisfies the criteria of a foreign language for the purposes of this requirement. Students who do not meet this requirement may be admitted with the condition that they fulfill the requirement by completing a two-semester sequence of a foreign language prior to graduation from FGCU.

Students satisfy the requirement by having completed two (2) years of a foreign language sequence in high school or eight (8) or more semester hours of a foreign language sequence in a previously attended college or university. They can demonstrate equivalent foreign language competence through credit awarded on the basis of scores on the foreign language subject matter examinations in the College Level Examination Program (CLEP), which must be equivalent to 8 to 10 semester hours of college-level work. Acceptable scores for awarding CLEP credit can be found in the Transferring Credit section of the catalog.