Admissions & selectivity
State University of New York at New Paltz Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at SUNY New Paltz?
SUNY New Paltz’s reported acceptance rate is 61.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 61.6%
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
State University of New York at New Paltz admits 61.6% of applicants. The median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size) sits above the university's rate.
What SAT and ACT scores do SUNY New Paltz students report?
Students who enroll at State University of New York at New Paltz and submit SAT scores typically fall between 1,170 and 1,340. For the ACT, the comparable middle half of enrolled students who submitted scores runs from 25 to 29.
Both ranges describe the academic credentials of students who chose to submit standardized test results, not minimum thresholds that every applicant must meet. A score within either range indicates that an applicant's test performance aligns with the academic profile of recently enrolled students.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at SUNY New Paltz. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1170
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1340
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
- 25
- 75th percentile
- 29
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at SUNY New Paltz?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 31.9%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 34.7%
- First-year retention
- 85.0%
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.
State University of New York at New Paltz is a public university in New Paltz, New York, enrolling 6,086 undergraduates. An estimated 34.7% of them arrive as transfers or part-time students, and 31.9% receive Pell Grants.
Most students who enroll at State University of New York at New Paltz persist and finish. The university retains 85.0% of its first-year students, well above the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
Its six-year graduation rate of 71.6% also exceeds the peer median of 49.1%. Pell Grant recipients complete at a rate of 57.6%, which is below the overall six-year rate by 14.0 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect a university where the majority of first-year students return, and where graduation outcomes for the entering class as a whole exceed those of comparable institutions.
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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