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Students should have completed the following minimal program in high school (each unit is equivalent to one academic year of study): English: 4 units, mathematics (college preparatory): 3 units, social studies: 3 units, laboratory science: 2 units, foreign language: 2 units, and additional academic units from above disciplines: 2 units; have grade point averages between 3.4 and 3.9 (on a 4.0 scale) in the middle 50 percent; present scores from the American College Test (ACT) or the SAT I. They must also complete three years of college preparatory mathematics and a full year each of laboratory biology and laboratory chemistry. International students whose native language is other than English or for whom English is a second language must demonstrate English proficiency irrespective of their length of residency in the United States, citizenship or immigration status by achieving a score of 92 in the internet TOEFL, 580 in the paper TOEFL, 7.0 in the IELTS exam, 83 percentile in the institutional MELAB test, 62 in the Pearson Test of English, 22 in English and reading section of ACT exam, and 450 in critical reading and writing section of the SAT exam. Applicants, who complete their entire high school curriculum in the United States or Canada, or at American schools abroad, may have the English proficiency requirement waived if their transcript does not include any ESL course work and the high school cumulative grade point average is 2.75 or higher.