Placement Designed to Support Your Success
UNE’s placement process helps you start in writing and math courses that match your skills and set you up for success. The Student Academic Success Center reviews your academic background and works with your advisor to place you in the right courses before you register. If you’re placed in a support course, you’ll get extra guidance alongside your regular classes — and if you feel your placement isn’t the right fit, you can request a review.
As an incoming undergraduate student, you’ll be placed into a writing course based on a review of your academic background. This review may include your high school GPA, high school English grades, AP credit, or transfer credit for composition or first‑year writing.
Possible Writing Placements
You may be placed into one of the following options:
- Becoming a Writer: Composition (WRT110)
- Writing Lab (SAS011) and WRT110.
This course introduces writing as a purposeful and developmental process. You’ll learn to:
- Read, think, and write in response to a variety of texts
- Develop and support ideas with evidence
- Integrate your ideas with those of other writers
- Revise and reflect on your writing over time
- Counts toward full‑time enrollment
- Is included in your GPA
- Fulfills Core Curriculum or graduation requirements
In the WRT 110 course, you’ll work both independently and collaboratively, participate in peer review, and create an ePortfolio that reflects your writing development.
Credits: 3
Writing Lab is designed to support you while you’re enrolled in WRT110. The course focuses on writing as a process and helps you build skills through reading, writing, and revising texts.
The SAS011 course:
- Counts toward full‑time enrollment
- Is included in your GPA
- Does not fulfill the Nor’easter Core Curriculum or graduation requirements
- Is a co-requisite to WRT110
You’ll get individualized guidance from a writing professional in a small group or one-to-one setting while completing coursework for WRT110. You may voluntarily enroll in SAS011 for additional support in your WRT110 course.
Credits: 1
Enrollment and Support Options
If you’re placed into Writing Lab, you’ll be enrolled in WRT110 and SAS011 at the same time.
You may enroll in SAS011 voluntarily if you’d like extra support while taking WRT110. This decision should be based on your comfort level with the expectations of the course.
Contact Jen Gennaco at jgennaco@une.edu or (207) 602‑2918 for guidance on opting into or with questions about SAS011.
Want to Challenge Your Writing Placement?
If you feel that your placement doesn’t reflect your writing skill, you may challenge your placement by submitting up to three writing samples for review.
Writing samples should:
- Be non‑fiction
- Engage with the ideas of other writers
- Show evidence of drafting, revision, and editing
- Include drafts (preferably with teacher comments) and final versions
- Have been written in grades 11 or 12 or in a college-level course
To learn more about challenging your writing placement, contact Jen Gennaco at jgennaco@une.edu or (207) 602‑2918.
Math placement helps ensure you’re enrolled in the math course that best supports your academic success. Placement is based on information such as your high school coursework, grades, and test scores, and results are shared with your advisor before registration so you can start in the right place.
- Placement is made based on your credentials prior to New Student Orientation
- You are encouraged to challenge placement
- A mathematics bridge program is available if you want to advance your placement
- If your major requires pre-calculus, calculus, chemistry, and/or physics, you need a UL4 placement to avoid prerequisite coursework
Mathematics Placement Levels and Your Next Steps
First‑year students are placed into one of five levels (UL2–UL6) based on a combination of information, including your high school math courses and grades, overall GPA, and standardized math test scores (such as the SAT or ACT), if available.
Transfer students are placed using the high school and college transcripts that are available at the time of review.
If you place at UL2 or an eligible UL3, you have options for how to meet this requirement, including the Mathematics Bridge opportunity, which may allow you to advance your math placement.
Submitting Additional Coursework or Scores
You can strengthen your placement or receive credit by submitting the following materials:
- AP exam scores should be sent to the Â鶹´«Ã½Registrar’s Office at registrar@une.edu.
- To receive credit for dual enrollment or other college coursework, request that an official transcript be sent directly from the institution to the Â鶹´«Ã½Admissions Office at admissions@une.edu.
If you feel that your initial math placement doesn’t accurately reflect your abilities, you may challenge your placement by submitting additional information for review. This can include:
- Updated or additional transcripts
- Math placement results from another college, such as ALEKS PPL or Accuplacer
If you took a math course during your senior year of high school, please email your final senior transcript directly to mathplacement@une.edu.
Every degree program has a mathematics requirement and mathematics prerequisites exist for Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. Your initial mathematics placement level will determine your first-semester course schedule. Placement levels and corresponding courses are listed below.
| University Placement level | Math Courses | Science Courses |
|---|---|---|
| UL2 | SAS021* Introductory Algebra | N/A |
| UL3 |
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| UL4 |
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| UL5 | MAT190 Calculus I | Any entry-level science course |
| UL6 | MAT195 Calculus II | Any entry-level science course |
If you change your major, you will be required to follow the prerequisites of that program which may include a different math requirement.
*Courses with a SAS designation are offered through the Student Academic Success Center and serve as prerequisites to mathematics and science courses. SAS courses count towards full-time enrollment for the purposes of athletic eligibility and financial aid, but do not satisfy core curriculum or graduation requirements and do not earn credit toward graduation. Grades for SAS courses are computed into your grade point average. If you are required to enroll in SAS mathematics courses, you will be invited to participate in UNE’s Mathematics Bridge Opportunity.
Mathematics Bridge Opportunity (ALEKS PPL)
If you place into UL2 or an eligible UL3 level (depending on your major), you’ll need to complete some prerequisite coursework before taking college‑level math and science classes.
One option is UNE’s Mathematics Bridge by ALEKS Placement, Preparation, and Learning (PPL), an online program that allows you to work independently to improve your math placement — often as an alternative to a traditional classroom course.
ALEKS PPL is an adaptive online system that helps you build the math skills you’ll need for success in college‑level math and science courses. It adjusts to what you already know, identifies areas to work on, and provides personalized practice with immediate feedback. You can access ALEKS from anywhere with an internet connection.
- Students who place at UL2 or eligible UL3 levels (based on major requirements) will be invited to participate in ALEKS PPL before their first semester begins.
- If you place at UL4 and your major requires calculus, you may also choose to complete ALEKS PPL for precalculus.
If you successfully advance your math placement through ALEKS PPL, you’ll be eligible to enroll in your next required math and/or science courses.
If you choose not to participate in ALEKS PPL, you’ll be enrolled in a traditional classroom section of the required math course for your placement level.
ALEKS PPL costs $30 for a year‑long subscription, and there are no additional university fees.
If you’re interested in the Mathematics Bridge or have questions, email mathplacement@une.edu for more information.