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# CUNY Hunter College Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated September 30, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Hunter College?

Hunter College’s reported acceptance rate is 53.8%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
53.8%

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

CUNY Hunter College admits 53.8% of applicants, a figure that sits well below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

## What SAT and ACT scores do Hunter College students report?

Among enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the 25th percentile is 1,100 and the 75th percentile is 1,420. That span captures the middle half of submitters in the entering class.

These figures show where enrolled students who submitted scores landed. They do not set a minimum for admission.

Students who entered without submitting scores fall outside this range entirely. An applicant can weigh a personal SAT result against the 1,100 to 1,420 range to gauge where it falls among recent enrolled submitters. The range offers context, not a threshold.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Hunter College. 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**
1100

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1420

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 Hunter College?

**Pell Grant recipients**
55.9%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
29.7%

**First-year retention**
77.6%

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.

CUNY Hunter College is a public university in New York, New York, enrolling 16,289 undergraduates. The university admits 53.8% of applicants, well below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Pell Grant recipients make up 55.9% of undergraduates, and an estimated 29.7% of entrants arrive as transfers or part-time students. The student body is drawn from multiple entry points, not a single traditional path.

Applicants who are Pell-eligible or transferring should use the cost calculator to estimate their own grant-adjusted price and review the transfer information alongside their intended field.

At CUNY Hunter College, 77.6% of full-time bachelor's-seeking students return for a second year, and 56.9% finish within six years. Both figures trail the medians for comparable institutions, which are 83.1% for retention and 65.0% for completion.

Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort complete at 46.2%, which is 10.7 percentage points below the overall rate. The completion figures for both groups trail the peer benchmarks.

## 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/).