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# Bay Path University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Bay Path University?

Bay Path University’s reported acceptance rate is 85.2%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
85.2%

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

Bay Path University admits 85.2% of those who apply, so most who apply are offered a place. That figure sits above the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

## What SAT and ACT scores do Bay Path University students report?

Among enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored between 1,010 and 1,210. These are the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles of recent score submitters, not a minimum for admission.

Applicants can compare their own results with this school's 1,010 to 1,210 range, keeping in mind that it reflects only the students who chose to submit scores. The figures describe the enrolled cohort, not every applicant.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Bay Path 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**
1010

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1210

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.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Bay Path University?

**Pell Grant recipients**
63.8%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
48.7%

**First-year retention**
72.8%

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.

Bay Path University enrolls 1,108 undergraduates, and more than half receive Pell Grants. An estimated 48.7% of students arrive as transfers or part-time students, so the student body is built from multiple entry points rather than a single traditional path.

The university admits 85.2% of applicants, above the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions.

Bay Path University's completion figures show a pattern where Pell Grant recipients finish at a higher rate than the entering class as a whole. The [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) for the first-time full-time cohort is 43.9%, below the peer median of 54.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

First-year retention sits at 72.8%, close to the peer median of 74.2%. Pell Grant recipients, who make up 63.8% of undergraduates, complete at a rate of 60.4%, which is above the overall six-year rate by 16.5 percentage points.

That pattern coincides with the university's strongest pillar, access, which Azimuth places in the 75th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Enrolled students can expect a university where the Pell completion record stands out, even as the overall graduation rate trails the peer median while first-year retention sits close to it.

The picture is mixed: the entering class as a whole lags comparable institutions on the six-year measure, but Pell recipients are finishing at a higher clip.

## 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/).