Stony Brook acceptance rate and admissions statistics
Stony Brook admitted 30,930 of 64,197 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 Stony Brook counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
Stony Brook acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 64,197 | 30,930 | 48.2% | 3,964 | 12.8% |
| 2024-25 | 55,880 | 27,406 | 49.0% | 4,042 | 14.7% |
| 2023-24 | 50,341 | 24,670 | 49.0% | 3,569 | 14.5% |
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 Stony Brook
Early decision counts: Not published. Stony Brook’s Common Data Set prints no early decision applicant or admit counts (section C21) for any year shown.
Stony Brook waitlist
Stony Brook SAT and ACT scores
What Stony Brook 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 Stony Brook rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores, Application essay
- Important: Recommendations
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores, Application essay
- Important: Recommendations
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores, Application essay
- Important: Recommendations
Stony Brook testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test-optional for applicants. SAT or ACT scores are required only for Scholars for Medicine and Scholars for Dental Medicine consideration.
From Stony Brook’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
The 2025-26 C1 total cell is empty, so totals are the sums of the in-state, out-of-state and international columns, which match the sex totals. Stony Brook has no early decision plan. The share submitting an SAT is printed as a decimal and shown as a percent.
Stony Brook acceptance rate questions
- What is the Stony Brook acceptance rate?
- Stony Brook's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 64,197 first-year applicants and 30,930 admitted, an acceptance rate of 48.2%. It was 49.0% in 2024-25 and 49.0% in 2023-24.
- What SAT scores do Stony Brook students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1350 to 1470, and ACT submitters scored 30 to 34. 38.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- How many students get off the Stony Brook waitlist?
- In 2025-26, Stony Brook offered 10,563 applicants a place on the waitlist; 5,191 accepted one, and 3,462 were admitted from it.
- Does Stony Brook require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test-optional for applicants. SAT or ACT scores are required only for Scholars for Medicine and Scholars for Dental Medicine consideration.
Applying to Stony Brook?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what Stony Brook says it weighs.
Source: Stony Brook Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Stony Brook. All official acceptance rates