Admissions & selectivity
Lewis University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Lewis University?
Lewis University’s reported acceptance rate is 71.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 71.3%
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
At Lewis University, the reported admission rate is 71.3%, which describes the share of the reported applicant pool admitted. For comparison, the relevant benchmark is the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Lewis University students report?
Submitted scores at Lewis University give applicants a reference point for the academic profiles of enrolled score submitters, rather than an admissions threshold. For the SAT, the middle 960 to 1,210 range marks the middle half of enrolled students who submitted scores.
The corresponding ACT range for enrolled submitters runs from 20 to 27. Applicants should compare their SAT result with Lewis University’s 960 through 1,210 range, recognizing that it describes recent enrolled submitters rather than a minimum for admission. The ACT figures offer the same context for applicants submitting that exam.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Lewis University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 960
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1210
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
- 27
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Lewis University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 32.6%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 52.6%
- First-year retention
- 79.1%
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.
Transfer entrants appear to be a central part of the undergraduate mix at Lewis University, where the estimated share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group is 52.6%. Federal enrollment data count 4,015 undergraduates, and 32.6% receive Pell Grants.
This points to a campus population that includes people continuing prior college work alongside undergraduates using federal grant aid, rather than one defined only by first-time entry. These figures describe the students enrolled, not admission priorities or an individual applicant’s likelihood of admission.
Returning after the first year is less common at Lewis University than at comparable institutions: the retention rate is 79.1%, below the peer median of 83.4%. For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 66.6%, also below the peer median of 68.8%.
Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 36.5%, below the overall rate by 30.1 percentage points. Enrolled students can expect completion outcomes that sit below the comparable-institution medians, with a further difference between the overall and Pell completion rates.
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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