{"admissions":{"act_25":23,"act_75":29,"admit_rate":88.9,"applicants":5290,"sat_25":1134,"sat_75":1320,"source_year":2023,"submit_share":{"act_pct":2,"definition":"share of enrolled first-years who submitted a score (CDS C9)","sat_pct":13,"year":2023},"test_policy":"Test-optional"},"admit_by_major":null,"aid_policy":null,"at_a_glance":["California Lutheran University is a private nonprofit four-year college in CA. It admitted 89% of applicants (5,290 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1134\u20131320, ACT 23\u201329. 13% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 2% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class.","Cost: about $30,109 a year on average with aid, $68,426 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $68,712 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $566,684 ahead with aid, $413,416 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Accounting and Related Services ($89,573); Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods ($83,310); Computer Science ($77,030).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 3% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 38% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name California Lutheran University: 10, 21 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Punahou School (1.2 per class year, 5 over 4 class years, the past four years (2022 \u2013 2025)); Kamehameha Schools (1.0 per class year, 7 over 7 class years, the last seven years, 2017-2023); Santa Margarita Catholic High School (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2025). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/california-lutheran-university.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming California Lutheran University: 1, 6 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Archbishop Mitty High School (6.0 per class year, 6 over 1 class year, Class of 2025). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/california-lutheran-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/california-lutheran-university.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":22161},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":23668},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":24318},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":29303}],"full_price":68426,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":30109,"npc_url":"https://www.callutheran.edu/financial-aid/tuition-fees/net-price-calculator.html","tuition_in_state":52560,"tuition_out_of_state":52560},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":68712,"median_6yr_after_entry":54981},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":6,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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