Admissions & selectivity
University of Puerto Rico at Cayey Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Puerto Rico at Cayey?
University of Puerto Rico at Cayey’s reported acceptance rate is 53.0%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 53.0%
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
The University of Puerto Rico at Cayey admits 53.0% of applicants, well below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Puerto Rico at Cayey students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores scored between 843 and 1,073. These ranges describe recent score submitters, not every enrolled student or a minimum for admission.
Applicants can compare their own results with the university's 843 to 1,073 range, keeping in mind that the figures reflect enrolled students who chose to submit scores. The range is a point of reference for recent submitters, not a threshold.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 843
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1073
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 Puerto Rico at Cayey?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 75.9%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 4.4%
- First-year retention
- 75.9%
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.
The undergraduate enrollment at University of Puerto Rico at Cayey is 2,069, and the student body is shaped by broad financial access. 75.9% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants.
An estimated 4.4% of students arrive as transfers or part-time students, so the campus is overwhelmingly built around students who start their degrees here. Applicants should know that the university admits 53.0% of those who apply, a rate well below the 85.9% median for comparable institutions (same type and size).
Most full-time students who begin at University of Puerto Rico at Cayey return for a second year. The retention rate of 75.9% runs above the 73.7% median for comparable institutions (same type and size).
The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 49.8%, which also sits above the peer median of 49.1%. Fewer than half of the entering cohort finishes within six years, so the path to a degree is not the majority outcome.
Enrolled students can expect an institution where most who start full-time stay past the first year, but where finishing within six years is less common.
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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