Southern Methodist University admissions

Texas private universities · TX. Fall 2023 first-year figures from federal (IPEDS) data. SMU does not publish admissions by high school, so these figures cover all applicants.

In fall 2023, Southern Methodist University admitted 9,240 of 15,092 applicants (61%). Its admit rate was 47% in fall 2019 and 61% in fall 2023.

Admit rate

61%

9,240 admitted of 15,092 applicants

Yield

17%

1,592 admitted students enrolled

SAT, middle 50%

1320–1480

Reading and math combined, among students who submitted scores

ACT, middle 50%

30–34

Composite, among students who submitted scores

By year

Fall	Applicants	Admitted	Admit rate	Enrolled	SAT	ACT
2023	15,092	9,240	61%	1,592	1320–1480	30–34
2022	16,150	8,439	52%	1,639	1370–1510	31–34
2021	15,685	8,333	53%	1,572	1340–1510	31–34
2020	14,010	7,379	53%	1,531	1250–1450	29–33
2019	13,959	6,601	47%	1,544	1300–1480	29–33

A dash means IPEDS has no figure for that year, e.g. test ranges while the college was test-optional.

From Texas high schools

Year

High schools whose class of 2024 enrolled at SMU the following fall, most students first. Share is of each school's trackable graduates.

School	County	Students	Share
Carroll Senior High School	Tarrant	16	2.4%
Highland Park High School	Dallas	16	3.0%
Plano East Senior High School	Collin	13	1.3%
Plano West Senior High School	Collin	12	1.3%
Coppell High School	Dallas	7	0.9%
McKinney Boyd High School	Collin	7	1.5%
Flower Mound High School	Denton	5	0.6%
Frisco High School	Collin	5	1.4%
IDEA Riverview College Preparatory	Cameron	5	5.3%
Rockwall-Heath High School	Rockwall	5	0.9%
Westlake High School	Travis	5	0.8%

College types (2-year, 4-year, public, private) are assigned by WhoGotIn from federal (IPEDS) and state (THECB) records; a few were classified by hand. See Methodology.

Where first-year students come from

Where SMU's first-year students lived when admitted, fall 2023.

SMU fall 2023 first-year students by residence
Lived in	Enrolled	Share
Texas	646	41%
Elsewhere in the U.S.	897	56%
Abroad	48	3%

Enrolled students only: the federal data has no applicants or admits by residency. Colleges report this in even-numbered years, and some in odd years too, so the newest year shown may be older than the figures above. Abroad means living outside the U.S. when admitted, not citizenship; students whose residence was not reported are left out. Source: U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS).