Admissions & selectivity
Florida Polytechnic University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Florida Polytechnic University?
Florida Polytechnic University’s reported acceptance rate is 57.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 57.5%
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
Florida Polytechnic University admits 57.5% of applicants. The median for comparable institutions (same type and size) is 83.4%, so the university is more selective than most of its peers.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Florida Polytechnic University students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported a middle range of SAT scores from 1170 to 1340 among enrolled first-year students who submitted scores. That range describes the 72% of the entering class who provided SAT results.
For the 29% who submitted ACT scores, the middle range ran from 21 to 26, with a median of 24. The reported average high-school GPA was 3.47, based on 100.0% of enrolled first-year students with a reported GPA.
An applicant can place their own scores against the university's 1170 to 1340 SAT range and 21 to 26 ACT range as one point of context, not as a threshold.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Florida Polytechnic University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
72% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1170
- Median
- 1250
- 75th percentile
- 1340
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
29% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 21
- Median
- 24
- 75th percentile
- 26
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Florida Polytechnic University Common Data Set 2024-25, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Florida Polytechnic University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 32.6%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 19.0%
- First-year retention
- 74.8%
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.
An estimated 18.9% of entrants arrive as transfers or part-time students. The campus includes students who began coursework elsewhere.
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 208 degree-seeking transfer applicants, of whom 130 were admitted and 80 enrolled. The university enrolls 1,689 undergraduates.
Of those, 32.6% receive Pell Grants. The student body brings together transfer students, first-year entrants, and federal grant recipients within a public university.
Florida Polytechnic University returns 74.8% of its first-year, full-time bachelor's-seeking students for a second year. That sits above the peer median of 73.4% for comparable institutions.
The peer median is the middle value for comparable institutions of the same type and size. The six-year graduation rate is 54.9% for the first-time full-time cohort.
That figure also exceeds the peer median of 43.5% for comparable institutions. Both measures point above their respective peer medians.
A student who enrolls full time can expect retention and graduation results that sit above the norm for the peer group.
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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