Admissions & selectivity
Tarleton State University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Tarleton State University?
Tarleton State University’s reported acceptance rate is 89.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 89.5%
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
Tarleton State University admitted 89.5% of applicants to the reported entering class, so the rate describes the share admitted rather than an individual applicant’s likelihood. That figure is above the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do Tarleton State University students report?
Score submissions at Tarleton State University offer reference points for the academic profile of enrolled students, rather than score cutoffs for admission. Applicants submitting SAT scores should compare their results with 980 to 1,160, the middle fifty percent of scores submitted by enrolled students.
That SAT span runs from the twenty-fifth to the seventy-fifth percentile, so it describes the central portion of the score-submitting enrolled class. For ACT submitters, the corresponding middle fifty percent runs from 19 to 24 among enrolled students who submitted ACT scores.
These ACT figures also describe submitted scores in the enrolled class, not minimum requirements. Using the relevant test range provides a school-specific reference without treating a score as a promised admission outcome.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Tarleton State University. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 980
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1160
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
- 19
- 75th percentile
- 24
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Tarleton State University?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 34.4%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 30.1%
- First-year retention
- 69.9%
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.
Pell Grant recipients make up 34.4% of the undergraduate population at Tarleton State University. The public university enrolls 12,673 undergraduates, and an estimated 30.1% share of entrants outside the first-time, full-time group indicates that many entrants began college elsewhere.
The figures describe a campus with both financial-access reach and a substantial transfer presence, rather than an individual applicant’s admission prospects. Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should review grant-aid and transfer-credit policies, then ask which prior courses may count toward their intended degree.
Retention and completion both trail the comparison figures, setting a restrained expectation for persistence after enrollment at Tarleton State University. Its first-year retention rate is 69.8%, below the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 83.1%.
For the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 48.2%, also below the peer median of 65.0%. Pell recipients complete within six years at 47.2%, below the overall rate by 1.0 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect returning and completing within six years to be less common than at comparable institutions, with Pell completion slightly lower than the cohort overall.
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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