Admissions & selectivity
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at John Jay College?
John Jay College’s reported acceptance rate is 57.1%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 57.1%
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 John Jay College of Criminal Justice admits 57.1% of applicants, a rate that sits well below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do John Jay College students report?
Among enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle 50% ranges from 930 to 1,220. An applicant with scores near or above 1,220 sits at the upper end of the range of recent enrolled students who submitted scores.
Scores below 930 fall at the lower end of that range. Applicants can use these figures to gauge where their own scores would place them among peers who provided test results.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at John Jay College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 930
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1220
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 John Jay College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 59.8%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 40.2%
- First-year retention
- 81.6%
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 John Jay College of Criminal Justice enrolls 11,590 undergraduates, with an estimated 40.2% of students transferring in. Pell Grant recipients make up 59.8% of undergraduates, reflecting broad access to the university.
The student body is shaped by both first-time freshmen and a substantial transfer population, suggesting multiple pathways into the institution. Applicants from community colleges or those with Pell eligibility will find a large peer group here.
The first-year retention rate is 81.6%, just below the peer median of 83.1%. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 55.8%, which trails the peer median of 65.0%.
For Pell Grant recipients, the six-year completion rate is 52.2%, a figure that sits below the overall rate.
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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