• College Admissions
• Bright Futures Scholarship Qualification
• State Funded In-School Test for 11th Graders
• Dual-Credit Eligibility
• Graduation Equivalence

Qualification for Bright Futures Scholarships using CLT scores will begin with 2023-2024 juniors and seniors.

1. By direct choice. Students can select “Florida Bright Futures” from the list of colleges when sharing their scores or add “Florida Bright Futures” to their “Colleges of Interest” list to automatically share scores from future tests.
2. By sharing with any Florida public college or university. Scores shared with these colleges are shared with the Florida Department of Education repository, which in turn shares them with Bright Futures.
3. By taking an in-school test paid for by the Florida Department of Education. Scores are shared with the Florida DOE repository and automatically shared with Bright Futures.

To view a current list of official Partner Colleges in Florida that accept the CLT, head to our Partner Colleges page and select “FL” in the Filter by State option.

CLT is not religiously or politically affiliated. What differentiates CLT from other standardized tests is that the CLT does not censor reading passages from different viewpoints and includes content on a variety of topics, including philosophy, religion, literature, history, science, and more. The majority of these passages are drawn from classic literature and historical texts that have had a lasting influence on Western culture and society.

Students do not need a prior knowledge of these texts to succeed on the CLT; instead, what is assessed is a student’s ability to read, comprehend, and analyze a text. Students who take the CLT will read atheist as well as religious authors, Karl Marx as well as Adam Smith, Aristotle as well as Mahatma Gandhi. These are the texts that students are likely to encounter throughout high school and college, and by the end of high school, students should be able to read texts that they agree or disagree with and glean information from them.

Yes! Bright Futures accepts superscored CLT exams. To superscore your test you’ll need to share the results of all the exams you’d like to superscore with Bright Futures. Once you’ve done that, Bright Futures will superscore your exam.