Admissions & selectivity
Otterbein University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Otterbein University?
Otterbein University’s reported acceptance rate is 84.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 84.5%
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
Admission was offered to 84.5% of applicants to Otterbein University, making the published rate a broad picture of a recent entering class rather than a promise to any applicant. For context, the comparison point is the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Otterbein University students report?
Otterbein’s reported ACT range places the middle half of enrolled score submitters between 22 and 28, offering a practical reference point rather than an admission floor. These scores cover enrolled students who submitted ACT results: the lower figure marks the twenty-fifth percentile and the upper figure the seventy-fifth percentile.
They do not describe every enrolled student, and they are not minimum scores for admission. Applicants can compare an ACT result directly with Otterbein’s 22 through 28 range, using it as context for recent enrolled submitters.
A score outside that span does not by itself settle an application decision, because the range records where submitted scores fell among enrolled students.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Otterbein University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- 25th percentile
- 22
- 75th percentile
- 28
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Otterbein University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 30.6%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 15.1%
- First-year retention
- 79.9%
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.
Grant aid and transfer routes are both part of Otterbein University’s undergraduate picture. Among its 2,157 undergraduates, 30.6% receive Pell Grants, a federal grant-aid measure, and an estimated 15.1% entered after beginning college elsewhere.
That mix includes people using federal grants alongside those continuing coursework begun elsewhere. These figures show a school whose undergraduate population is not limited to one route into college.
Otterbein University’s six-year graduation rate is 67.9% for first-time full-time students, below the peer median of 68.8% for comparable institutions (same type and size). First-year retention, the share of full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students who return, is 79.9%, also below the peer median of 83.4%.
Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 52.4%, below the overall rate by 15.5 percentage points. These measures describe past cohorts, not an individual timetable.
Enrolled students can expect both retention and graduation measures below comparable-institution medians, while Pell completion is lower than overall completion.
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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