Loyola Marymount acceptance rate and admissions statistics
Loyola Marymount admitted 10,992 of 22,798 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 48.2%. Every number below comes from the college’s own Common Data Set, each year linked to its document; a figure the college leaves blank says “Not published”, and the notes at the foot of the page say where a total is the sum of rows the college printed.
What did admitted applicants have? How to get into Loyola Marymount counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
Loyola Marymount acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 22,798 | 10,992 | 48.2% | 1,536 | 14.0% |
| 2024-25 | 23,089 | 10,409 | 45.1% | 1,541 | 14.8% |
| 2023-24 | 23,361 | 9,413 | 40.3% | 1,535 | 16.3% |
Acceptance rate is admitted divided by applied; yield is enrolled divided by admitted. Both are computed by Aristo Scholars from the two counts printed beside them.
Early decision at Loyola Marymount
Loyola Marymount waitlist
Loyola Marymount SAT and ACT scores
What Loyola Marymount says matters in admission
In section C7 each college rates its own admission factors as Very Important, Important, Considered or Not Considered. These are the factors Loyola Marymount rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Application essay
- Important: Recommendations, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Application essay
- Important: Recommendations, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Application essay
- Important: Recommendations, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities
Loyola Marymount testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test-optional: 'The ACT or SAT is optional for students'; there is no minimum GPA or test score.
From Loyola Marymount’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
The number accepting a waitlist place is not printed in any year shown. C1 totals are the residency table totals.
Loyola Marymount acceptance rate questions
- What is the Loyola Marymount acceptance rate?
- Loyola Marymount's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 22,798 first-year applicants and 10,992 admitted, an acceptance rate of 48.2%. It was 45.1% in 2024-25 and 40.3% in 2023-24.
- What is the Loyola Marymount early decision acceptance rate?
- In 2025-26, 364 of 858 early decision applicants were admitted (42.4%), against 48.2% of all applicants. Early decision applicants are a different pool who commit to enroll, so the two rates are not a like-for-like comparison.
- What SAT scores do Loyola Marymount students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1265 to 1410, and ACT submitters scored 28 to 33. 20.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- How many students get off the Loyola Marymount waitlist?
- In 2025-26, Loyola Marymount offered 6,148 applicants a place on the waitlist; the number who accepted is not published, and 208 were admitted from it.
- Does Loyola Marymount require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test-optional: 'The ACT or SAT is optional for students'; there is no minimum GPA or test score.
Applying to Loyola Marymount?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what Loyola Marymount says it weighs.
Source: Loyola Marymount Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Loyola Marymount. All official acceptance rates