Pomona acceptance rate and admissions statistics
Pomona admitted 890 of 12,470 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 7.1%. 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 Pomona counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
Pomona acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 12,470 | 890 | 7.1% | 421 | 47.3% |
| 2024-25 | 12,249 | 868 | 7.1% | 436 | 50.2% |
| 2023-24 | 12,121 | 819 | 6.8% | 408 | 49.8% |
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 Pomona
Pomona waitlist
Pomona SAT and ACT scores
What Pomona 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 Pomona rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities
- Important: None recorded
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities
- Important: None recorded
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Recommendations, Application essay, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities
- Important: None recorded
Pomona testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test-optional (made permanent in November 2023). SAT or ACT scores are not required, and applicants may self-report them. ACT submitters must include the Science section.
From Pomona’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
2025-26 and 2024-25 are published as interactive reports. C1 totals are the sums of the gender columns. C7 rates no factor Important.
Pomona acceptance rate questions
- What is the Pomona acceptance rate?
- Pomona's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 12,470 first-year applicants and 890 admitted, an acceptance rate of 7.1%. It was 7.1% in 2024-25 and 6.8% in 2023-24.
- What is the Pomona early decision acceptance rate?
- In 2025-26, 227 of 1,656 early decision applicants were admitted (13.7%), against 7.1% 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 Pomona students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1490 to 1550, and ACT submitters scored 32 to 34. 37.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- How many students get off the Pomona waitlist?
- In 2025-26, Pomona offered 1,017 applicants a place on the waitlist; 716 accepted one, and 31 were admitted from it.
- Does Pomona require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test-optional (made permanent in November 2023). SAT or ACT scores are not required, and applicants may self-report them. ACT submitters must include the Science section.
Applying to Pomona?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what Pomona says it weighs.
Source: Pomona Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Pomona. All official acceptance rates