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# East Texas A&M University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at East Texas A&M University?

East Texas A&M University’s reported acceptance rate is 92.2%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
92.2%

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

At East Texas A&M University, the reported admission outcome indicates that most applicants were admitted. The admission rate was 92.2%, above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

## What SAT and ACT scores do East Texas A&M University students report?

Submitted test scores at East Texas A&M University provide context for the academic profile of enrolled students who sent scores; they are not admission minimums. Each range marks the middle half of results, from the twenty-fifth through the seventy-fifth percentile, among enrolled score submitters.

Applicants should place their own SAT result alongside the university’s 910 to 1,150 SAT range when considering an application. They should also compare an ACT result with the 18 to 24 ACT range for enrolled submitters.

Neither range describes every enrolled student, because not all students submitted scores.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at East Texas A&M University. 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**
910

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1150

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.

ACT: enrolled-student score range

**25th percentile**
18

**75th percentile**
24

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at East Texas A&M University?

**Pell Grant recipients**
40.5%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
55.2%

**First-year retention**
57.2%

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 the undergraduate population at East Texas A&M University: undergraduate enrollment is 9,912, with an estimated 55.2% transfer-in share. 40.5% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants.

The composition includes people continuing coursework begun elsewhere alongside undergraduates using federal grant aid, rather than a single entry route.

East Texas A&M University has lower retention and six-year completion than comparable institutions, giving enrolled students a persistence picture to watch. The first-year retention rate for full-time bachelor’s-seeking entrants is 57.2%, below the peer median of 73.7%.

For the first-time full-time cohort, the [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) is 42.8%, below the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients have a six-year completion rate of 48.9%, above the overall rate by 6.1 percentage points.

Enrolled students can expect these measures to describe prior cohorts and can use them to plan for returning after the first year and finishing within six years. Both overall measures sit below their peer medians, while Pell completion is above the university’s overall completion 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/).