Admissions & selectivity
College of Staten Island CUNY Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at College of Staten Island CUNY?
College of Staten Island CUNY’s reported acceptance rate is 92.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 92.3%
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
College of Staten Island CUNY admits 92.3% of applicants, a rate that reflects its broad-access mission as a public university. The median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size) sits below the university's rate.
What SAT and ACT scores do College of Staten Island CUNY students report?
Among enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored between 890 and 1,250. These ranges describe the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles of recent score submitters, not admission cutoffs.
Applicants can use this school's own range as context: a score near 1,250 sits above the middle half of recent submitters, while one near 890 sits below it. The figures reflect only those who chose to submit scores, not every enrolled student.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at College of Staten Island CUNY. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 890
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1250
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 College of Staten Island CUNY?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 49.6%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 26.9%
- First-year retention
- 75.7%
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.
College of Staten Island CUNY serves 9,657 undergraduates. Pell Grant recipients make up 49.6% of undergraduates, and an estimated 26.9% of students enter as transfers or part-time students.
This composition reflects a public university that draws heavily from its local community and provides broad access to students from varied financial backgrounds. Applicants who are Pell-eligible or considering transferring should know that the university's enrollment patterns suggest a welcoming environment for both groups.
The substantial Pell share indicates that many students attend with federal grant support, and the transfer presence means new arrivals are likely to find peers who have also changed institutions.
Among full-time bachelor's-seeking first-year students, 75.7% return for a second year, which sits above the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions. The six-year graduation rate is 33.9%, below the peer median of 49.1%.
For Pell Grant recipients in that cohort, the six-year completion rate is 27.7%, below the overall rate. Enrolled students can expect a campus where returning for sophomore year is more common than at peer institutions, though finishing a degree within six years remains less frequent.
The completion gap for Pell recipients is a measurable reality, and students who rely on federal grants should plan to engage with academic support resources early.
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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