Stony Brook University
Stony Brook publishes 48% (Fall 2025). International applicants got in at 67%; in-state (new york) at 40%.
Acceptance rate
What Stony Brook's 48% is made of
The published rate averages groups with very different odds. These are the splits Stony Brook reports itself.
Part of Real Acceptance Rates, our series decomposing published rates from each school's own Common Data Set.
Testing
Test-Optional for 2026-27
- Policy
Stony Brook (SUNY): 'Stony Brook is test optional for applicants.' Admission is based on holistic review; no end date or future change to the policy was found.
- SAT middle 50%
- 1330–1500sum of section 25th–75th percentiles
- ACT middle 50%
- 29–33
- Average HS GPA
- 92.91/100CDS 2024-2025 (Fall 2024 entering class) · Source
Applying
Deadlines, essays and AI policy
- Early deadlines
- Nov 1, 2026 (EA)
- Regular decision
- Jan 15, 2027Source
Full cycle calendar: Application Deadlines.
At a glance
Size and cost
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 18,101
- Tuition (out-of-state)
- $32,741
- Category
- Public
- Admissions site
- www.stonybrook.edu
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Sources
- Stony Brook test policy (2026-27)
- Stony Brook GPA (CDS 2024-2025 (Fall 2024 entering class))
- Acceptance rate, test-score percentiles, enrollment and tuition: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, pulled 2026-08-19.
Test policy and deadlines last verified 2026-08-17.
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