Admissions & selectivity
Case Western Reserve University Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Case Western?
Case Western’s reported acceptance rate is 36.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 36.5%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
Source: Case Western Reserve University Common Data Set 2025-26, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Case Western Reserve University admitted 36.5% of applicants, below the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 39,332 first-year applicants, 13,890 admitted applicants, and 1,663 enrolled first-year students.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled Case Western students report?
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted SAT scores fell between 1440 and 1530. 52% of the entering class submitted SAT scores.
For the 15% who submitted ACT scores, the middle half ranged from 32 to 34. These ranges describe enrolled students who chose to submit scores, not a minimum for admission.
Among enrolled first-year students with a reported class rank, 70% graduated in the highest tenth of their high-school class and 93% in the highest quarter. Applicants can use the university's own SAT range of 1440 to 1530 as context for recent score submitters, rather than as a cutoff.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Case Western. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
52% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 1440
- Median
- 1490
- 75th percentile
- 1530
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
15% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 32
- Median
- 33
- 75th percentile
- 34
CDS 2025-26 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: Case Western Reserve University Common Data Set 2025-26, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at Case Western?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 17.5%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 2.5%
- First-year retention
- 92.1%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Case Western Reserve University enrolls a modest transfer-in segment alongside a larger undergraduate body, with financial-aid recipients forming part of the campus mix. Pell Grant recipients account for 17.5% of undergraduates, and an estimated 2.5% enter as transfers or part-time students; undergraduate enrollment is 6,437.
This composition suggests that most undergraduates begin there directly, while Pell recipients and transfer entrants are both present. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 661 degree-seeking transfer applicants, 173 admitted, and 51 enrolled.
Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should use the institution's published aid and transfer information to clarify the costs and credit arrangements that apply to their own entry path.
In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, Case Western Reserve University reported a retention rate of 93% for the first-time, full-time fall 2024 entering class. 92.1% of full-time entrants return after the first year, a figure above the peer median of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
87.2% of the first-time full-time cohort finish within six years, also above the comparable-institution median of 68.8%. Pell recipients in the same cohort complete at 83.0%, below the overall rate by 4.2 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect that most full-time entrants who start a degree here return and finish.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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