Admissions & selectivity
CUNY York College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at CUNY York College?
CUNY York College’s reported acceptance rate is 64.1%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 64.1%
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 York College admitted 64.1% of applicants in the reported entering class, a lower share than the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). This rate summarizes how that year’s applicant pool fared, rather than setting a threshold for admission.
What SAT and ACT scores do CUNY York College students report?
For enrolled SAT score submitters at CUNY York College, the middle half scored from 790 to 960. This range covers the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles of submitted SAT scores, placing it among recent enrollees who provided scores rather than setting a minimum for admission.
It describes the central portion of that submitted-score group, not the full entering class or an individual applicant’s admission prospects. The figures offer a concrete reference for the academic profile represented by reported SAT results.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at CUNY York College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 790
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 960
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 York College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 40.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 43.9%
- First-year retention
- 57.4%
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.
Transfer pathways are a prominent part of attendance at CUNY York College, where an estimated 43.9% of undergraduates enter after starting elsewhere. Undergraduate enrollment is 4,345, and 40.1% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants.
The mix points to a campus serving both students using federal grant aid and those continuing coursework from another institution, rather than only people arriving directly from high school. These figures describe the undergraduate population, not admission priorities or an individual admission decision.
At CUNY York College, both the return after the first year and completion within six years sit below the reference points for comparable institutions. Among full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year entrants, 57.4% return for their second year, compared with a peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 73.7%.
The first-time full-time cohort has a 32.2% six-year graduation rate; the comparable-institution median is 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 43.0%, above the overall rate by 10.8 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect the schoolwide retention and completion figures to point below their peer reference points, even as Pell completion is higher than 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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