Admissions & selectivity
York College of Pennsylvania Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at York College of Pennsylvania?
York College of Pennsylvania’s reported acceptance rate is 73.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 73.7%
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
For applicants, York College of Pennsylvania has an admission rate of 73.7%, describing the share of that year's applicant pool admitted. The rate is above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do York College of Pennsylvania students report?
Submitted-score ranges at York College of Pennsylvania offer a reference point for applicants, showing the central scores of enrolled students who provided results rather than an admissions floor. Applicants should use the university's SAT range of 1,020 through 1,270 when placing their own score in context.
That interval marks the middle half of SAT scores submitted by enrolled students; it does not describe every student at the university. Among ACT submitters, the corresponding middle half extends from 21 to 28.
These ranges come from enrolled score submitters, so they provide comparison points without setting a required score for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at York College of Pennsylvania. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1020
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1270
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
- 21
- 75th percentile
- 28
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at York College of Pennsylvania?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 28.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 18.9%
- First-year retention
- 78.2%
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.
York College of Pennsylvania enrolls 3,265 undergraduates, with federal grant recipients and transfer entrants both part of its undergraduate composition. Pell Grant recipients make up 28.1% of undergraduates, a financial-access measure rather than a description of family background.
An estimated 18.9% of undergraduates entered as transfers or part-time students, so the campus includes people continuing coursework begun elsewhere as well as those starting at the university. These figures point to more than one route into the undergraduate population, without indicating admission priorities.
Students who enroll face retention and completion rates that are below those at comparable institutions. Within the first-time full-time cohort, the six-year graduation rate is 64.1%, below the peer median of 68.8% for comparable institutions of the same type and size.
Pell recipients in that cohort have a six-year completion rate of 59.2%, below the overall rate by 4.9 percentage points. Full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year students have a retention rate of 78.2%, also below the peer median of 83.4%.
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.
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