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# Emory University Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Emory University?

Emory University’s reported acceptance rate is 10.6%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
10.6%

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.

First-year applicants and admitted students · CDS 2025-26

**Applicants**
37,561

**Admitted**
3,869

Source: Emory University Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.

How to interpret the acceptance rate

In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, Emory University recorded 37,561 first-year applicants, with 3,869 admitted and 1,443 enrolled. Its admission rate of 10.7% sits below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size), a wide difference in the reported outcomes.

## What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Emory University students report?

In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, Emory University reported that the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted SAT scores fell between 1480 and 1540. 47% of the entering class submitted SAT scores, so the range describes a subset of enrolled students.

For the 21% of enrolled students who submitted ACT scores, the middle half ranged from 33 to 35. Applicants should weigh their own SAT and ACT results against the university's 1480 to 1540 and 33 to 35 ranges, which describe enrolled submitters rather than admission minimums.

Among enrolled first-year students with a reported class rank, 76% finished in the upper tenth of their high-school class and 97% finished in the upper quarter.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Emory University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.

**47% of entering students submitted SAT scores**

SAT: reported composite scores

**25th percentile**
1480

**Median**
1510

**75th percentile**
1540

CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.

**21% of entering students submitted ACT scores**

ACT: reported composite scores

**25th percentile**
33

**Median**
34

**75th percentile**
35

CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Source: Emory University Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.

## Who enrolls at Emory University?

**Pell Grant recipients**
18.2%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
29.2%

**First-year retention**
95.7%

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.

Attendance at Emory University includes undergraduates receiving Pell Grants and people arriving through transfer pathways. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 2,399 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 544 admitted, and 173 enrolled.

Federal enrollment data list 7,298 undergraduates, with 18.2% receiving Pell Grants; an estimated 29.2% enter as transfers or part-time students. These figures describe a campus with both direct-entry and transfer routes, alongside students using federal grant aid.

In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that 95% of the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class were retained to the next fall. Federal data likewise show that students who begin full time tend to remain enrolled and complete degrees at rates above comparable institutions.

The federal first-year retention rate is 95.7%, above the peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions. The [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) for the first-time full-time cohort is 91.1%, above the peer median of 68.8%.

Pell recipients have a 90.2% six-year completion rate, below the overall rate by 0.9 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect high cohort-level retention and completion, though the Pell completion figure is lower than the overall figure.

## 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/).