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Acceptance rate shows how selective a program is by telling you what portion of applicants get admitted. It’s calculated by dividing the number admitted by the number of applicants and multiplying by 100 to turn it into a percentage.

For example, if 46 students are admitted out of 100 applicants, the acceptance rate is 46%. The same ratio could be expressed as 23 admitted out of 50, or 460 admitted out of 1,000, and all would equal 46%. The different percentages in the options would come from different numbers admitted or applying. So 46% is the rate described when the admitted-to-applicant ratio is 0.46.