Admissions & selectivity
Pennsylvania Western University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Pennsylvania Western University?
Pennsylvania Western University’s reported acceptance rate is 94.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 94.3%
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
Pennsylvania Western University admitted 94.3% of applicants to the reported entering class, a broad admission outcome for that pool. That rate is above the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Pennsylvania Western University students report?
Published score ranges at Pennsylvania Western University offer context for applicants rather than admission minimums. Among enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half scored from 940 to 1,140.
That range runs from the twenty-fifth to the seventy-fifth percentile of submitted scores, not every enrolled student. ACT submitters had a middle-half range from 17 to 25, using the same lower-to-upper-quartile measure.
Applicants should compare their SAT results with the university’s 940 through 1,140 range for recent enrolled submitters. Applicants using ACT scores should likewise use the 17 through 25 range as context, not as a threshold.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Pennsylvania Western University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 940
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1140
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
- 17
- 75th percentile
- 25
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Pennsylvania Western University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 38.3%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 28.4%
- First-year retention
- 71.7%
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.
Pennsylvania Western University serves a student body with both substantial Pell Grant use and a notable transfer presence. 38.3% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, a federal grant-aid measure, and the university has 7,451 undergraduates overall.
An estimated 28.4% of the undergraduate population entered as transfers or part-time students, so the campus includes people beginning there and people continuing prior college work. This composition suggests attendance through more than one academic entry point, alongside students using federal grant aid.
Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should compare their own aid eligibility and prior coursework with these enrollment patterns before applying. These figures describe who attends, rather than admission priorities or an individual applicant’s odds.
Completion is above the comparable-institution benchmark, but first-year persistence is lower. For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 51.9%, above the peer median of 49.1%, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size).
First-year retention, which tracks full-time bachelor’s-seeking entrants returning for a second year, is 71.7%, below its peer median of 73.7%. Pell recipients in the cohort have a 46.9% six-year completion rate, below the overall rate by 5.0 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect a mixed pattern: completion exceeds the peer benchmark, while returning after the first year does not.
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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