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# CUNY Medgar Evers College Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated September 30, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at CUNY Medgar Evers College?

CUNY Medgar Evers College’s reported acceptance rate is 86.1%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
86.1%

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 Medgar Evers College admits 86.1% of applicants, nearly identical to the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

## What SAT and ACT scores do CUNY Medgar Evers College students report?

The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores fell between 850 and 1,020. These are the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles of submitted scores, not admission cutoffs.

The figures describe the students who enrolled and reported scores, not the full admitted class. Applicants can use CUNY Medgar Evers College's own 850 to 1,020 SAT range as a reference point for recent score submitters, rather than as a minimum.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at CUNY Medgar Evers 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**
850

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1020

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 CUNY Medgar Evers College?

**Pell Grant recipients**
56.3%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
45.3%

**First-year retention**
49.7%

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.

CUNY Medgar Evers College enrolls 3,233 undergraduates. 56.3% of them receive Pell Grants, making federal need-based aid a central feature of how students pay for college.

An estimated 45.3% arrive as transfers or part-time students. The campus is composed primarily of students who rely on federal grant aid and of students who began their degrees elsewhere.

That mix points to a place where access and continuation matter more than a traditional first-year path. Pell-eligible applicants should check the net price for their income band, and transfer applicants should verify how prior credits apply to their intended degree program.

For first-time full-time students, the [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) is 19.8%, against a peer median of 49.1% for comparable institutions. First-year retention sits at 49.7%, compared to a peer median of 73.7%.

Pell recipients in the same entering cohort complete at 19.4%, which is 0.4 percentage points below the overall rate.

## 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/).