Admissions & selectivity
Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion?
Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion’s reported acceptance rate is 88.9%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 88.9%
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
Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion admitted 88.9% of applicants in its reported pool, so the published outcome shows broad admission rather than a narrow intake. That rate sits above the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion students report?
Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion’s submitted-score ranges offer context for the academic profiles of enrolled score submitters, not admission minimums. They describe the middle half of scores reported by enrollees who chose to submit them, rather than every student in the entering class.
Applicants can place an SAT result alongside the university’s 960 to 1,180 range for enrolled SAT submitters. They can similarly compare an ACT result with the 19 to 28 range among enrolled ACT submitters.
Those ranges show where the central portion of submitted scores fell, so neither endpoint is a required score or a prediction of an individual admission decision.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 960
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1180
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
- 19
- 75th percentile
- 28
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 27.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 13.0%
- First-year retention
- 82.9%
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.
Federal grant aid is part of the undergraduate mix at Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion, where 27.1% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants. Undergraduate enrollment is 1,974, and an estimated 13.0% enter after beginning coursework elsewhere.
That mix suggests a campus serving both students using Pell support and people arriving through transfer pathways, rather than only first-time entrants. These enrollment measures describe who attends, not how admission decisions are made.
Students who begin full time have a first-year retention rate of 82.9%, above the peer median of 74.2% for comparable institutions. The first-time full-time cohort has a 66.7% six-year graduation rate, which is above the peer median of 54.9%.
For Pell recipients in that cohort, the six-year completion rate is 42.4%, below the overall rate by 24.3 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect retention and six-year completion measures that exceed the comparable-institution medians, alongside a lower completion rate for Pell recipients.
The peer comparison and the Pell completion figure point to different experiences within the entering cohort.
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.
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