Admissions & selectivity
SUNY College at Geneseo Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at SUNY College at Geneseo?
SUNY College at Geneseo’s reported acceptance rate is 66.4%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 66.4%
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.
Source: SUNY College at Geneseo Common Data Set 2024-25, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
SUNY College at Geneseo admits 66.5% of applicants, a rate well below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 15,252 first-year applicants and 10,162 admitted students.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled SUNY College at Geneseo students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, SUNY College at Geneseo reported a 3.63 average high-school GPA among enrolled first-year students who submitted one. An average is not a cutoff.
Of enrolled first-year students who submitted SAT scores—12% of the class—the middle half scored between 1210 and 1340. The 1% who submitted ACT scores posted a middle half from 26 to 31.
Among enrolled first-year students with a reported class rank, 26% finished in the top tenth of their high-school class and 65% finished in the upper quarter. These figures describe enrolled students who provided the data, not admission thresholds.
Prospective students should view the university's 1210 to 1340 SAT range and 26 to 31 ACT range as a portrait of recent submitters rather than as minimums.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at SUNY College at Geneseo. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
12% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1210
- Median
- 1250
- 75th percentile
- 1340
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
1% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 26
- Median
- 30
- 75th percentile
- 31
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: SUNY College at Geneseo Common Data Set 2024-25, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at SUNY College at Geneseo?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 27.6%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 15.5%
- First-year retention
- 87.0%
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.
The undergraduate population of 3,869 at SUNY College at Geneseo blends recent high-school graduates with an estimated 15.5% who arrived as transfers or part-time students. Federal Pell Grants go to 27.6% of undergraduates.
That mix suggests a campus serving students from varied entry points rather than a single traditional pathway. In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 15,252 first-year applicants and 10,162 admitted.
Transfer applicants totaled 909, with 518 admitted and 174 enrolling. Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should review the program pages for their intended field to see how their background aligns with the current student body.
Full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants return at a rate of 87.0% after the first year, well above the peer median of 73.7% for comparable institutions. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 71.5%, also exceeding the peer median of 49.1%.
Pell recipients in that cohort complete at 63.3%, which is 8.2 percentage points below the overall rate. The gap is measurable but the Pell completion rate itself remains above the peer median for overall completion.
Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion outcomes that outpace comparable institutions, with the strongest results for the student body as a whole.
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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