Admissions Criteria

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Freshman Criteria

Stony Brook Southampton is a highly selective institution, seeking to enroll those students who demonstrate the intellectual curiosity and academic ability to succeed. Applicants are evaluated on an individual basis. There is no automatic cutoff in the admission process, either in grade point average, rank, or test scores. The Admissions Committee seeks to enroll the strongest and most diverse class possible.

Successful applicants will typically have:

  • High school diploma or equivalent.
    (Regents diploma preferred for NY residents)
  • Strong high school academic program that includes:
    • 4 units of English
    • 4 units of social studies
    • 3 units of mathematics
    • 3 units of science
    • 2 or 3 units of a foreign language

  • Standardized test scores that indicate the promise of success in a rigorous undergraduate course of study.
  • Students who show evidence of leadership, special talents or interests, and other personal qualities through extracurricular activities, volunteer work, and other non-academic pursuits will receive special consideration.
  • Two letters of recommendation from counselors and teachers may be requested by Stony Brook Southampton's Admissions Office.

Transfer Criteria

For admission purposes, you are a transfer student if you have registered at a college or university after graduating from high school. Applicants are required to have performed well in a strong academic program. If you have earned fewer than 24 credits, your high school transcripts and SAT scores must also be submitted.

The University of New York is committed to offering admission to qualified graduates of university-parallel programs, i.e., A.A. and A.S. degree recipients from colleges within the State University of New York and City University of New York systems. Students are not, however, guaranteed admission into the program of their choice. Graduates of career-oriented programs (A.A.S. and A.O.S.) will be considered for admission on an individual basis and in competition with other transfer applicants.

Offers of admission are conditional, pending receipt of all official records showing successful completion of academic work in progress.


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AP and College Credit

  1. Advanced placement credit* is granted to students who have taken the appropriate CEEB advanced placement examination and scored a 3 or higher. Students must request that their test scores be forwarded to Stony Brook Southampton’s Undergraduate Admissions Office from AP Services; P.O. Box 6671; Princeton, NJ 08541-6671; (609) 771-7300 or (888) 225-5427 (toll-free in the U.S. and Canada).
  2. Courses are evaluated individually. Credits for all courses passed with a letter grade of C or higher at regionally accredited institutions or recognized by the Program on Noncollegiate Sponsored Instruction of the State of New York and recorded on official transcripts are accepted and evaluated for applicability to specific Stony Brook Southampton degree requirements. Credits for successfully completed courses from these institutions for which a grade equivalent to “P” or “S” was assigned are also accepted.
  3. Graduates of SUNY or CUNY colleges who earned an Associate in Arts or Associate in Science degree prior to matriculation at Stony Brook Southampton receive transfer credit for all credit completed as part of their associate degree requirements. Official proof of an A.A. or A.S. degree must be submitted by October 1 if the student enters the University in the fall semester or by February 15 if the student enters the University in the spring semester.
  4. Transfer credit is entered on the official University transcript. Grades received for transferred courses are not shown nor are they included in the calculation of the student’s cumulative grade point average at Stony Brook Southampton.
  5. Almost all credits earned at community and technical colleges are considered to be lower-division credit.
  6. Transfer courses are reviewed individually by the Undergraduate Transfer Office for their applicability toward fulfillment of general education requirements. Applicants who have completed college-level study at an institution outside of the United States will have their credits evaluated for application to the University’s general education requirements by the Transfer Office. International students may be required to have their credits evaluated by World Education Services (WES).
  7. Courses satisfactorily completed elsewhere toward the intended major or needed to fulfill the 39 upper-division credits requirement must be evaluated by the appropriate academic department for specific applicability. No transferred course with a grade lower than C may be counted among the 39 upper-division credits required for graduation. Forms for requesting the evaluation of specific courses for major and upper-division credit are available in the Undergraduate Transfer Office and in the Engineering and Applied Sciences Undergraduate Student Office. Students may begin the evaluation process as soon as they accept the offer of admission.
  8. Courses taken at other universities and colleges in a technology curriculum will normally not be transferred as equivalents to engineering or applied sciences courses.
  9. Credit may be given for courses taken in foreign secondary schools having a thirteenth-year equivalent to the first year of college. Students who have studied in such schools should consult the Undergraduate Admissions counselor for international students before seeking a departmental course evaluation.
  10. Courses offered by regionally accredited colleges and completed while the student was in high school will be evaluated for transfer credit.
  11. International Baccalaureate: With its origins in Europe, the International Baccalaureate Program—now offered by some American high schools— leads to a diploma or certificates of examination. Stony Brook Southampton University will award six credits for International Baccalaureate higher-level exams with scores of 5 or better for year-long courses.
  12. Students will receive transfer credit for a maximum of four 100-level physical
    education courses.


*Stony Brook Southampton University accepts up to 30 credits by examination in partial fulfillment of the bachelor's degree.