Admissions & selectivity
Farmingdale State College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Farmingdale State College?
Farmingdale State College’s reported acceptance rate is 63.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 63.3%
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
Farmingdale State College admitted 63.3% of applicants, a rate below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). That difference means the reported admission outcome was less common here than at its comparison group, without indicating any individual applicant’s prospect.
This rate summarizes one reported applicant pool rather than setting a personal likelihood of admission.
What SAT and ACT scores do Farmingdale State College students report?
At Farmingdale State College, submitted test scores offer reference points for applicants rather than admission thresholds. Applicants should compare their SAT result with the school’s range of 1,040 to 1,240 when deciding how their score fits this enrolled group.
The middle half of enrolled ACT submitters scored from 20 to 28. Both ranges cover the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles of enrolled students who submitted scores, so they do not describe every enrolled student or set minimum scores for admission. SAT and ACT results provide separate context for recent score submitters.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Farmingdale State College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1040
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1240
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.
- 25th percentile
- 20
- 75th percentile
- 28
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Farmingdale State College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 36.2%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 36.7%
- First-year retention
- 81.6%
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.
Farmingdale State College serves an undergraduate body with both grant-aided students and a substantial transfer presence. Of its 9,552 undergraduates, 36.2% receive Pell Grants, a federal grant-aid measure, and an estimated 36.7% entered after beginning study elsewhere.
That mix suggests the college is attended through more than one route: direct entry, federal grant aid, and transfer. These composition figures describe enrolled undergraduates, not admission priorities or any individual applicant’s admission odds.
Students who enroll at Farmingdale State College return and complete at rates above the middle value for comparable institutions. The first-year retention rate for full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students is 81.6%, compared with a peer median of 73.7%.
For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 52.8%, above the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a 57.0% six-year completion rate, above the overall rate by 4.2 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect retention and six-year completion measures that exceed the comparable-institution medians, with Pell recipients’ completion rate also above the overall figure.
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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