Admissions & selectivity
SUNY Polytechnic Institute Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at SUNY Polytechnic Institute?
SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s reported acceptance rate is 81.4%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 81.4%
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.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
SUNY Polytechnic Institute admits 81.3% of applicants, a figure close to the median of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do SUNY Polytechnic Institute students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores fell between 1,025 and 1,370. For those who submitted ACT scores, the range ran from 22 to 30.
These figures show the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles of recent score submitters. They are not admission cutoffs, and they describe only the portion of the entering class that provided scores.
An applicant can place their own results alongside this school's 1,025–1,370 SAT range and 22–30 ACT range. Keep in mind that the numbers reflect enrolled submitters rather than a required threshold.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1025
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1370
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
- 22
- 75th percentile
- 30
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at SUNY Polytechnic Institute?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 39.7%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 47.1%
- First-year retention
- 69.2%
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.
SUNY Polytechnic Institute enrolls 1,849 undergraduates. 39.6% of them receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 47.1% arrive as transfers or part-time students.
The campus therefore includes both students receiving federal grant aid and people continuing degrees they started elsewhere. That composition describes a student body built from multiple entry routes rather than a single traditional pipeline.
The undergraduate population is shaped by both Pell recipients and students who began their coursework at other colleges. Applicants who are Pell-eligible or transferring from another college should look up their intended field on the program pages and run a grant-adjusted price estimate through the cost calculator.
Among full-time first-year students at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, 69.2% continue into their second year. That is below the peer median of 73.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
The first-time full-time cohort posts a six-year graduation rate of 55.1%, higher than the peer median of 43.5%. Pell recipients in that group finish at 65.0%, a rate that runs 9.9 percentage points above the entering cohort as a whole.
Enrolled students can expect a campus where Pell recipients finish at a higher rate than their classmates, even though first-year retention is lower than at 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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