Admissions & selectivity
University of Mount Saint Vincent Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Mount Saint Vincent?
University of Mount Saint Vincent’s reported acceptance rate is 85.1%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 85.1%
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
University of Mount Saint Vincent admits 85.1% of applicants, a rate that sits above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The figure describes a broad-access private university where most applicants receive an offer.
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Mount Saint Vincent students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores fell between 1,011 and 1,178. These are the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles of submitted scores, not admission cutoffs.
An applicant comparing their own score to this range is comparing it to the scores of recent enrolled students who chose to submit them. The range describes the middle of that group, not every enrolled student.
Applicants should treat the university's own 1,011 to 1,178 range as one piece of context about the scores of students who sent them in. It is not a minimum for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Mount Saint Vincent. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1011
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1178
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.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Mount Saint Vincent?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 46.2%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 68.2%
- First-year retention
- 73.1%
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.
University of Mount Saint Vincent enrolls 2,692 undergraduates. 46.2% of them receive Pell Grants, and an estimated 68.2% arrive as transfers or part-time students.
Most of the student body did not start college here, and nearly half rely on federal grant aid to attend. That composition suggests a campus shaped by multiple entry points rather than a single traditional path.
A student considering the university should know that the majority of their classmates will have begun their degree somewhere else. Pell-eligible applicants should use the net price calculator to see their estimated grant-adjusted cost, and transfer applicants should confirm how their credits will apply toward their intended program.
Of full-time bachelor's-seeking first-year students at University of Mount Saint Vincent, 73.0% return for a second year. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 56.8%.
Both figures run below the peer medians: 83.4% for retention and 68.8% for completion at comparable institutions. Pell recipients complete at 45.1%, which is 11.7 percentage points below the overall rate.
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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