Admission Requirements

At Richmond, there is no typical applicant. Admission counselors work hard to evaluate each applicant in a holistic manner, assessing character, service, special talents, creativity, independence, and life experience alongside traditional measures of academic success—like grades, rigor of curriculum, test scores, and recommendations. While there’s no perfect formula that will guarantee acceptance, there are a few minimum requirements that guarantee each student we accept will come to campus prepared to succeed.

Candidates for admission must have completed a minimum of 16 units of secondary school coursework. Minimum requirements include four units in English, three in college preparatory mathematics (including Algebra I, II, and Geometry), and at least two each in history, laboratory science, and foreign language (two units of the same language, not including American Sign Language, which will not satisfy the requirement for foreign language). Competitive candidates for admission typically exceed the minimum requirements and have taken three to four units in science, history, and foreign language at the highest levels available in their school setting.

To learn more about students who were recently admitted, check out the first-year student profile.