Pacific Union College acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

With an acceptance rate near 47%, Pacific Union College is a selective private college in California. Because it admits a minority of applicants, admission turns on the strength of your whole profile rather than any one number.

Use this page to see what Pacific Union College weighs, where it ranks among California schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1120, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

What are my chances at Pacific Union College with a 3.5 GPA and a 1060 SAT?

About 69% (Likely), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.5 unweighted GPA and a 1060 SAT, the middle of Pacific Union College's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.8 GPA with a 1120 SAT comes out near 85%. Courses, activities, essays and the application round move the number; the free calculator includes them.

Estimates, not guarantees. Get yours with your real courses and activities. Assistants and developers can fetch this table from the free API: /api/v1/colleges/pacific-union-college.

Here is how to get into Pacific Union College, built from what its admitted class actually looks like and what the school says it weighs.

For the fall 2023 entering class, Pacific Union College received 1,323 applications and admitted 562, an acceptance rate of 42.5%. 139 enrolled. Only about 25% of admitted students enrolled, so the school admits several students for every seat it expects to fill, which is why its acceptance rate reads higher than its selectivity feels. Pacific Union College enrolls about 805 undergraduates in total, 63% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 12 to 1.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, IPEDS 2023 admissions and enrollment.

Pacific Union College reports that it neither requires nor recommends test scores, so admission turns on your transcript, rigor, and the rest of the file.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10.

In its review, Pacific Union College leans most on rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and standardized test scores. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from Pacific Union College's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

Pacific Union College's published cost of attendance, before any aid, is roughly $49,404 per year. Tuition and fees alone are $37,173. What families actually pay is different: the average net price after grants and scholarships is $41,008 a year, and it ranges from $41,008 for families earning under $30,000 to null for families earning over $110,000. 34% of undergraduates receive a federal Pell Grant.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Net price is what students receiving aid paid after grants, by family income.

Ten years after enrolling, the median Pacific Union College student who received federal aid earns $70,484 a year, up from $52,713 at six years. 58% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 89% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $27,500; 58% of undergraduates take federal loans.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Earnings cover students who received federal aid.

Among the 61 California schools we track, Pacific Union College ranks #18 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like California Institute of Technology (3%) and Stanford University (4%) sit nearby, which makes California a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list.

Build around Pacific Union College with peers at a comparable selectivity, such as George Washington University, Syracuse University, and Washington Adventist University. Running the same profile against each one in the free calculator is the fastest way to see where you are a reach, a match, or a likely.

Acceptance rate, application counts, admitted test ranges, cost, and outcomes reflect publicly reported federal data (U.S. Department of Education: IPEDS 2023 and the College Scorecard) and each school's Common Data Set; figures are rounded and lag the current cycle by one to two years, so confirm deadlines and policies on the school's own site. The typical-admit GPA and SAT are CollegeCalcAI's modeled estimates. Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.