Admissions Mid-Year Update
A review of Admissions activities for 2024–2025 thus far.
We are off to a great start for the 2024–2025 admissions cycle and are excited to welcome 75 new students for the spring 2025 semester.
The 75 new students joining our community this spring include 11 first year students, 59 transfer students, and 5 graduate students.
We are also excited to be hosting our spring student reception on Thursday, January 9 to give students still making their decision an opportunity to see campus once more.
Looking ahead to the fall 2025 applicants, we have 9,344 applications thus far for the upcoming term. This is an increase year over year of 11.5%!
Of these applicants:
- 8,872 are first year applicants
- 413 are transfer students
- 59 are graduate students
- 60% are applying to programs not requiring a talent screening
- 40% are applying to programs requiring a talent screening
Upcoming Events
The Admissions team would like to thank our campus partners in advance for their hard work and support throughout this cycle!
Outside of the applications, we are looking forward to hosting a variety of events throughout the spring to help our students make their final decisions by May 1. Please take a look at some of our save the date items below:
- Ongoing call campaigns completed by staff, students, and faculty to interested students
- Daily tours Monday–Saturday for prospective and admitted students and their families
- Student Scholarship event celebrating our scholarship recipients on March 5 at 6:00pm
- Classroom experiences available by program to give students insight into what their time at Purchase will look like academically
- Two Accepted Student events on April 5 and April 16
As a note, we caution the campus community to remember that we are still amidst an enrollment recovery period. We encourage everyone to celebrate the work done thus far and continue to keep it up for the remainder of the cycle to come.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions to further attract and enroll our new students, we invite you to connect with the admissions team at admissions@purchase.edu.
Happy New Year from Admissions!
*Data as of January 2, 2025