Admissions & selectivity
Cedarville University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Cedarville University?
Cedarville University’s reported acceptance rate is 65.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 65.3%
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
Cedarville University admitted 65.3% of applicants to its reported entering class, a rate that describes the share of that applicant pool receiving admission. For comparable institutions (same type and size), the reference point is the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size), which is higher.
Applicants should place this rate alongside their own academic record and score information when deciding where to apply. It summarizes that year’s pool rather than forecasting an individual admission decision.
What SAT and ACT scores do Cedarville University students report?
The academic profile at Cedarville University covers a broad range of submitted test scores among enrolled students. For SAT submitters, the middle 1,130 to 1,360 range marks the scores between the lower and upper quarter of the enrolled score-submitting group.
The corresponding ACT range for enrolled submitters runs from 22 to 29. These figures describe students who enrolled and chose to submit scores, not minimums for admission.
Test scores offer one view of that class's academic profile, rather than a cutoff for any individual application.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Cedarville University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1130
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1360
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
- 29
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Cedarville University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 15.2%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 7.8%
- First-year retention
- 89.6%
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.
Cedarville University enrolls 4,024 undergraduates, with a relatively small estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group of 7.8%. Pell Grant recipients account for 15.2% of undergraduates, placing financial-aid recipients within a campus population that is largely made up of students entering through other routes.
The enrollment mix suggests that most undergraduates did not arrive as transfers, while Pell recipients are one part of the student body rather than its largest segment. Pell-eligible applicants and prospective transfers should compare their aid estimates and intended transfer credits with their own plans before applying.
Cedarville University shows stronger continuation and completion figures than comparable institutions, though Pell recipients finish at a lower rate than the overall cohort. Its first-year retention rate is 89.6%, compared with 83.4%, the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size).
For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate reaches 72.5%; the comparable-institution median is 68.8%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 63.2%, below the overall rate by 9.3 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect first-year continuation and six-year completion measures that exceed the comparable-institution middle values, alongside a lower completion figure for Pell recipients.
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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