Historical Acceptance Rates

For the application year 2024, Samuel Merritt College reported a very low overall acceptance rate of just 2.25%, with only 49 out of 2,174 applicants admitted. This represents a significant decrease in acceptance rates from 25.79% in 2020, where 147 applicants were accepted out of 570. Without historical acceptance rates available for the intervening years, it's unclear how much the competitiveness has shifted, but the drastic drop between 2020 and 2024 indicates an increasingly selective admissions process.