Admissions & selectivity
Pomona College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Pomona College?
Pomona College’s reported acceptance rate is 7.1%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 7.1%
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
Pomona College admits 7.1% of applicants, a figure that sits well below the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Pomona College students report?
Pomona College's enrolled students who submitted SAT scores fall in a middle range of 1,490 to 1,560. For those who submitted ACT scores, the middle range is 33 to 35.
These figures describe the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentiles of recent enrolled submitters, not a minimum for admission. An applicant can place their own scores against Pomona's 1,490 to 1,560 SAT range. They can also compare against the 33 to 35 ACT range for context.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Pomona College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1490
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1560
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
- 33
- 75th percentile
- 35
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Pomona College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 19.5%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 4.8%
- First-year retention
- 97.6%
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.
Pomona College is a private nonprofit university in Claremont, California, with an undergraduate enrollment of 1,666. The student body includes 19.5% who receive Pell Grants, a measure of financial access.
An estimated 4.8% of undergraduates arrive as transfers or part-time students, meaning most students begin their degree here. The composition points to a campus where the typical student enters directly from high school and a notable share use federal grant aid.
Students who enroll at Pomona College tend to stay and finish. The first-year retention rate for full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants is 97.5%, and the six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 93.2%.
Both measures run well above the medians for comparable institutions, where retention is 74.2% and completion is 54.9%. Enrolled students can expect a campus where nearly everyone returns for a second year and the large majority finish a degree within six.
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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