Admissions & selectivity
North Central College Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at North Central College?
North Central College’s reported acceptance rate is 77.3%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 77.3%
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.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Admission to North Central College was relatively open in the reported cycle, with 77.3% of applicants admitted. That rate sits above the median of 71.2% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do North Central College students report?
Enrolled students who submitted SAT scores posted a middle range from 1,055 to 1,310. On the ACT, the middle half of submitters scored between 24 and 29.
These figures are the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles of recent enrolled students who provided scores. They describe the students who chose to enroll, not a cutoff for admission.
An applicant can see where their own results sit within the ranges of recent enrolled submitters. That context is more useful than treating any single number as a threshold.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at North Central College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1055
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1310
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.
- 25th percentile
- 24
- 75th percentile
- 29
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at North Central College?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 23.9%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 36.7%
- First-year retention
- 77.1%
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.
North Central College enrolls a mix of students who begin there and people continuing coursework from elsewhere. Its undergraduate enrollment is 2,428, with 23.9% of undergraduates receiving Pell Grants and an estimated 36.7% entering as transfers or part-time students.
That profile suggests a campus with both federal grant recipients and transfer entrants, rather than one defined solely by a direct-from-high-school route. These figures describe the students enrolled, not admission priorities or an individual applicant’s prospects.
North Central College has retention and completion figures below comparable institutions, although Pell recipients complete at a higher rate than the overall cohort. Among full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year entrants, 77.1% return for a second year; the comparable-institution median is 83.4%.
Within six years, 64.0% of the first-time full-time cohort completes, compared with a peer median of 68.8%. Pell recipients in that cohort have a 67.6% six-year completion rate, above the overall rate by 3.6 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect return and completion figures below peer medians, alongside a Pell completion rate higher than the collegewide figure.
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.
Figure notes link to sources and limitations. About College Azimuth.