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# Alfred University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Alfred University?

Alfred University’s reported acceptance rate is 73.8%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
73.8%

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

At 73.8%, Alfred University's admission rate sits below the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size). It records the share admitted from the reported entering-class applicant pool.

## What SAT and ACT scores do Alfred University students report?

Alfred University’s submitted-score profile offers a reference point rather than a set of admission minimums. Applicants should compare their SAT result with the university’s 1,095 to 1,310 range when deciding where to apply.

That interval marks the middle fifty percent of SAT scores submitted by enrolled students, from the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles. For ACT submitters, the corresponding range among enrolled students runs from 24 to 29.

These figures describe students who enrolled and submitted scores; they do not cover every enrolled student or establish a required score. Reading both ranges as context can help applicants place their results alongside recent enrolled score submitters.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Alfred University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.

SAT: approximate enrolled-student range

**Approximate lower endpoint**
1095

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1310

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.

ACT: enrolled-student score range

**25th percentile**
24

**75th percentile**
29

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Alfred University?

**Pell Grant recipients**
38.5%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
13.3%

**First-year retention**
77.5%

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.

Alfred University enrolls undergraduates who use federal grant aid alongside people arriving through transfer routes. Federal enrollment data count 1,423 undergraduates, and 38.5% receive Pell Grants, a financial-access measure.

An estimated 13.3% of undergraduates entered as transfers or part-time students. This mix points to a campus serving both grant-aided undergraduates and people continuing coursework begun elsewhere, rather than one defined by a single entry route.

Alfred University posts retention and completion figures above the medians for comparable institutions, although Pell recipients finish at a slightly lower rate than the overall cohort. Among full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year entrants, the retention rate is 77.5%, above the peer median of 74.2% for comparable institutions.

The first-time full-time cohort has a [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) of 57.0%, above its peer median of 54.9%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 56.6%, below the overall rate by 0.4 percentage points.

Enrolled students can expect measures of returning after the first year and finishing within six years that exceed the stated peer medians, with Pell completion lower than overall completion.

## Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: [methodology](/methodology/).

Analysis and methodology by [Daniel Rogers](/about/#founder), 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.

Figure notes link to sources and limitations. [About College Azimuth](/about/).