Admissions & selectivity
Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Franklin W Olin College of Engineering?
Franklin W Olin College of Engineering’s reported acceptance rate is 25.2%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 25.2%
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
Franklin W Olin College of Engineering admits 25.2% of applicants, a rate that sits well below the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Franklin W Olin College of Engineering students report?
The SAT scores of enrolled students who submitted them sit in a narrow band: the middle half range from 1,493 to 1,558. That is a tight cluster, not a wide spread, and it describes the students who chose to send scores, not a cutoff for admission.
An applicant looking at those numbers should treat them as a snapshot of one recent class, not a promise or a floor. The range tells you where the middle of the group landed, and a score outside it does not rule anyone out.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Franklin W Olin College of Engineering. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1493
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1558
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.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Franklin W Olin College of Engineering?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 12.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 8.8%
- First-year retention
- 98.0%
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.
Franklin W Olin College of Engineering enrolls 377 undergraduates. Only 12.1% hold Pell Grants, while an estimated 8.8% come from other institutions.
The composition suggests a small cohort drawn mainly from traditional first-year entrants. Most students enter directly from high school rather than transferring in from other colleges.
The Pell and transfer figures together describe a student body built largely from a single entry point, with little turnover from students arriving mid-stream or relying on federal grant support. Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should each estimate their own net price and review credit-transfer policies before applying.
Franklin W Olin College of Engineering posts a first-year retention rate of 98.0% and a six-year graduation rate of 96.4%. The peer medians for comparable institutions are 74.2% and 54.9%, so both figures run well ahead of the benchmark.
Enrolled students can expect a campus where nearly everyone who starts returns for a second year and finishes within six. The figures describe outcomes for the entering cohort, not a guarantee for any one student.
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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