Exemption / Waiver Criteria

You graduated within the past 5 years from a high school in the United States, with an overall High School GPA of 3.0 or higher, and meet the following criteria: 

• Complete 4 years of high school of in the U.S.
• Minimum of 3 years of College Prep English with grades of C or higher. 
• Submit final Junior or Senior year transcripts.

You took the SAT exam within the past 5 years and scored a 450 or higher on the Evidence-based Reading and Writing section.

You took the ACT exam within the past 5 years and scored a 21 or higher on the English/Reading section.

You took the AP exam within the past 5 years and scored a 3 or higher on the English Language and Composition Exam.

You may be eligible for partial or full exemption if you took the TOEFL within the past 2 years and scored the following:

• Reading: 22-30
• Listening: 22-30
• Speaking: 26-30
• Writing: 24-30

You took the GED exam within the past 5 years and scored a 165 or higher on the Language Arts Exam.

You took the HiSET exam within the past 5 years.

• Reading: 15
• Writing: 15
• Essay: 4

You took the TASC exam within the past 5 years.

• Reading: 580
• Writing: 560
• Essay: 6

You completed the Accuplacer placement test at another college/university within the past 2 years.

• Writeplacer: 6+
• Next-Generation Reading: 255+

Effective June 2021, students who are in the top 15.0% of their high school class are ready for college-level coursework.

• Note: Depending on major, students may require testing to place into specific courses.
• NJ STARS does not cover costs for pre-college coursework.

You graduated within the past 5 years from a high school in the United States, with an overall High School GPA of 3.0 or higher, and meet the following criteria: 

• Complete 4 years of high school of in the U.S.
• Minimum of 3 years of College Prep Math with grades of C or higher.
• Submit final Junior or Senior year transcripts. 

You took the SAT exam within the past 5 years and scored a 500 or higher on the math section.

You took the ACT exam within the past 5 years and scored a 21 or higher on the math section.

You took the GED exam within the past 5 years and scored a 165 or higher in Mathematical Reasoning.

You took the HiSET exam within the past 5 years and scored a 15 or higher on the math section.

You took the TASC exam within the past 5 years and scored a 560 or higher on the math section.

You completed the Accuplacer Next-Generation Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra and Statistics (QAS) and Next-Generation Advanced Algebra and Functions (AAF). placement test at another college/university within the past 2 years. 

• College-level Math (i.e. College Algebra, Statistics): QAS: 250+ AND AAF 200-249
• Pre-Calculus: QAS 250+ AND AAF 250-275
• Calculus: QAS 250+ AND AAF 275-300

Effective June 2021, students who are in the top 15.0% of their high school class are ready for college-level coursework.

• Note: Depending on major, students may require testing to place into specific courses.
• NJ STARS does not cover costs for pre-college coursework.