Admissions & selectivity
Saint Mary's College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Saint Mary's College?
Saint Mary's College’s reported acceptance rate is 76.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 76.0%
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
Saint Mary's College admitted 76.0% of applicants in the reported cycle, a rate close to the typical outcome at comparable institutions. That figure sits alongside the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size), so the two rates are nearly alike.
Applicants should compare their academic record and submitted scores with Saint Mary's College's published ranges when building an application list.
What SAT and ACT scores do Saint Mary's College students report?
Saint Mary's College offers score ranges as context for recent enrolled submitters, not as admission minimums. Applicants comparing SAT results should use the 1,130 to 1,325 span, which marks the middle half of SAT scores submitted by enrolled students.
Applicants comparing ACT results should use the 26 to 30 span, the corresponding middle half for enrolled ACT submitters. Because these figures cover only students who submitted each test, they do not describe every member of the entering class.
The two ranges offer a school-specific reference point for interpreting test results alongside the rest of an application.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Saint Mary's College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1130
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1325
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
- 26
- 75th percentile
- 30
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Saint Mary's College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 23.9%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 7.3%
- First-year retention
- 88.1%
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.
Saint Mary's College has an undergraduate population that includes federal grant recipients and people arriving after prior college study. Its 1,458 undergraduates include 23.9% receiving Pell Grants, and an estimated 7.3% share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group.
These figures show multiple entry routes and the presence of grant-aided undergraduates, rather than admission priorities.
The graduation record at Saint Mary's College is above its comparable-institution benchmark, and first-year persistence follows the same pattern. For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate reaches 69.3%, above the peer median of 54.9% for comparable institutions.
Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 73.9%, above the overall rate by 4.6 percentage points. The first-year retention rate is 88.1%, compared with 74.2% at comparable institutions.
Enrolled students can expect these recent cohort rates to offer a benchmark for persistence and finishing within six years, not a prediction for an individual path.
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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