Undergraduate Admission

Prospective students may apply to the University by sending E-mail to universityofdelaware.info. Students must ask for and submit the application along with a check in the amount of $60 by the deadline for their admission category. The following requirements must be met for the admission procedure.

1. Applicants for applying to the University must be graduates of secondary schools.

2. Applicants should graduate in the upper half of their high-school classes, preferably in the uppermost percentiles.

3. Applicants are required to submit SAT scores and/or ACT scores directly from the appropriate testing agency.

4. Applicants should have a good grasp over basic academic skills of reading, writing, mathematics and science, and foreign languages, as well as a strong commitment to academic achievement and learning.

5. The academic profiles for most of the competitive applicants may exceed the following requirements.

a. Four years of college preparatory English, including courses with extensive writing components.

b. Three years of college preparatory mathematics.

c. Three years of science, plus two years of a laboratory science.

d. Four years of social sciences, which must include two years of history, one of which should be world history.

e. Two years of study in the same foreign language. Candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree and many Bachelor of Science degrees must demonstrate intermediate-level proficiency in a foreign language.

This requirement can be met in one of two ways:

• 1. Completion of the intermediate level course (107 or 112) in a given language.
  

• 2. Successful completion of an exemption examination by students who have completed four or more years of high school work in a single foreign language.

f. Three years of academic electives in fields such as English, mathematics, foreign languages, history, and social sciences or science. Academic electives do not include, for example, sports activities or driver education. g. All entering students must submit a Personal and Family Medical History Form, verifying proper immunization against measles, mumps and rubella.