{"admissions":{"act_25":null,"act_75":null,"admit_rate":69.5,"applicants":397,"sat_25":1220,"sat_75":1460,"source_year":2023,"submit_share":{"definition":"share of enrolled first-years who submitted a score (CDS C9)","sat_pct":25,"year":2023},"test_policy":"Test-optional"},"admit_by_major":null,"aid_policy":null,"at_a_glance":["Soka University of America is a private nonprofit four-year college in CA. It admitted 70% of applicants (397 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1220\u20131460. 25% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score \u2014 this range describes students who submitted, not the whole class.","Cost: about $18,260 a year on average with aid, $55,064 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $55,017 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $477,130 ahead with aid, $329,914 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities ($52,896).","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Soka University of America: 4, 5 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Punahou School (0.5 per class year, 2 over 4 class years, the past four years (2022 \u2013 2025)); Sage Hill School (0.3 per class year, 1 over 3 class years, 2023-2025); Albuquerque Academy (0.2 per class year, 1 over 4 class years, Classes of 2021-2024). 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/soka-university-of-america.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/soka-university-of-america.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":12020},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":10619},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":12049},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":12724}],"full_price":55064,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":18260,"npc_url":"https://npc.collegeboard.org/app/soka","tuition_in_state":38728,"tuition_out_of_state":38728},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":55017,"median_6yr_after_entry":42696},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":0,"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. Admits are counted at each college a student was admitted to, so this counts admissions rather than students, the same way the UC Reach Score counts a student admitted to three UC campuses three times. These rows are never added to, or ranked against, the enrollment rows above: an acceptances list runs about three times an enrollment list.","ranked_by":"admissions per class year (published total \u00f7 class years covered)","schools":[],"schools_publishing":0,"schools_ranked":0,"unranked":[]},"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered matriculation list. Schools are ranked by graduates per class year \u2014 the published total divided by the class years that school's list covers \u2014 because a five-year list and a one-year list are not the same window; `total`, `span` and the school's verbatim `years` ride with every row. A school whose class years cannot be read is not ranked: it is listed under `unranked` with its total. 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