Admissions & selectivity
Eastern Washington University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Eastern Washington University?
Eastern Washington University’s reported acceptance rate is 90.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 90.7%
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.
Source: Eastern Washington University Common Data Set 2024-25, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, Eastern Washington University reported 6,340 first-year applicants and 5,983 admitted applicants, providing a count-based view of that admissions cycle. The federal admission rate of 90.8% sits above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
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What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Eastern Washington University students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, Eastern Washington University reported that 1% of enrolled first-year students submitted ACT scores. For that limited group, applicants can place an ACT result beside the 23 to 27 middle-half range, which describes enrolled submitters rather than a minimum for admission.
The university also reported an average high-school GPA of 3.27 among enrolled first-year students who reported GPA. The sparse ACT submissions and reported average GPA provide context for recent enrollees, but neither figure sets an admission cutoff.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Eastern Washington University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
1% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 23
- Median
- 25
- 75th percentile
- 27
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Eastern Washington University Common Data Set 2024-25, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Eastern Washington University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 35.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 34.1%
- First-year retention
- 67.4%
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.
Eastern Washington University serves a substantial undergraduate population that includes many Pell Grant recipients and a notable transfer pathway. Pell Grant recipients account for 35.1% of 6,222 undergraduates, a financial-access measure based on the share receiving those federal grants.
An estimated 34.1% of undergraduates enter as transfers or part-time students. That estimate indicates that attendance includes people continuing coursework begun elsewhere as well as those arriving through the first-year route; it does not describe admission priorities.
Pell-eligible applicants and prospective transfers should use the cost calculator for a grant-adjusted estimate of their own costs before deciding whether the university fits their budget. The Pell and transfer figures describe an undergraduate body with more than one route into enrollment.
Students face retention and completion measures that trail the medians for comparable institutions, though Pell recipients complete at a higher rate than the overall cohort. The first-year retention rate is 67.4%, below the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 73.7%.
For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 43.5%, below the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 54.4%, above the overall rate by 10.9 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect that returning after the first year and completing within six years are measured separately, so both benchmarks are useful when considering their own plan. The institution-wide retention and graduation measures sit below peer medians, while the Pell completion measure is above 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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