Admissions & selectivity
Abilene Christian University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Abilene Christian University?
Abilene Christian University’s reported acceptance rate is 66.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 66.0%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Abilene Christian University admits 66.0% of applicants. The median admission rate for comparable institutions (same type and size) is 71.2%, so the university is somewhat more selective than its peers.
What SAT and ACT scores do Abilene Christian University students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores fell between 1,070 and 1,270. For those who submitted ACT scores, the middle half ranged from 22 to 28.
These figures come from students who chose to include test results with their application, not from every enrolled student. They are not admission minimums.
An applicant can place their own scores alongside the university's 1,070–1,270 SAT band and 22–28 ACT band to see where they sit among recent submitters.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Abilene Christian University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1070
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1270
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.
- 25th percentile
- 22
- 75th percentile
- 28
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Abilene Christian University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 22.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 10.7%
- First-year retention
- 80.5%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Abilene Christian University is a private nonprofit university in Abilene, Texas, enrolling 3,195 undergraduates. The Pell share is 22.3%, covering the institution's federal-aid reporting units rather than this campus alone.
An estimated 10.7% of undergraduates arrive as transfers or part-time students. The admission rate is 66.0%, which sits below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
For full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants, the first-year retention rate is 80.5% and the six-year graduation rate is 59.0%. Both figures trail the peer medians of 83.4% and 68.8% for comparable institutions.
Pell recipients in that cohort complete at 48.2%, which is 10.8 percentage points below the overall rate. The gap is a fact about outcomes, not a verdict on the institution.
Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion rates that fall short of the peer medians, and Pell recipients face a wider gap.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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