Admissions & selectivity
Cal Poly Maritime Academy Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Cal Poly Maritime Academy?
Cal Poly Maritime Academy’s reported acceptance rate is 95.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 95.0%
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
Cal Poly Maritime Academy admits 95.0% of applicants, a rate that sits above the median of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Cal Poly Maritime Academy students report?
SAT and ACT ranges are not available for Cal Poly Maritime Academy in the data shown here. Missing scores do not establish whether tests are required, optional or excluded from review.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Cal Poly Maritime Academy?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 25.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 26.9%
- 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.
Cal Poly Maritime Academy enrolls 804 undergraduates. 25.1% receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 26.9% arrive as transfers or part-time students, so the student body includes people who started elsewhere alongside those who began here.
Pell-eligible applicants should review the net price by income band to see what aid recipients in similar circumstances have paid on average.
Students who start full time at Cal Poly Maritime Academy finish at rates that outpace comparable institutions. The six-year graduation rate is 59.7%, against a peer median of 43.5%.
First-year retention sits at 77.5%, also above the peer median of 73.4%. Pell recipients in the entering cohort complete at 61.9%, which is 2.2 percentage points above the overall rate.
Enrolled students can expect a campus where completion runs ahead of the peer group, and where Pell students finish at a higher rate than their classmates.
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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