Admissions & selectivity
University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus?
University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus’s reported acceptance rate is 74.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 74.7%
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: University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus Common Data Set 2024-25, C1 · first-time, first-year students.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus admits 74.7% of applicants, a rate that sits close to the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 14,931 first-year applicants and 11,151 admitted applicants.
What SAT and ACT scores do enrolled University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus students report?
In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported an average high-school GPA of 3.52 among enrolled first-year students who submitted a GPA. Among those who reported a class rank, 19% placed in the highest tenth of their high-school class and 44% in the highest quarter.
For students who submitted test scores, the middle half of enrolled SAT takers scored between 980 and 1220, though only 23% of the entering class submitted an SAT. The ACT range was 23 to 32, from 2% of the class.
These ranges describe the enrolled students who chose to submit scores, not a cutoff. An applicant can place their own results against the university's 980 to 1220 SAT band and 23 to 32 ACT band as one point of context. They should keep the low submitter shares in mind.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
23% of entering students submitted SAT scores
- 25th percentile
- 980
- Median
- 1101
- 75th percentile
- 1220
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
2% of entering students submitted ACT scores
- 25th percentile
- 23
- Median
- 27
- 75th percentile
- 32
CDS 2024-25 · enrolled first-year score submitters. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Source: University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus Common Data Set 2024-25, C9 · Enrolled first-time, first-year score submitters.
Who enrolls at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 26.2%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 56.2%
- First-year retention
- 72.7%
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.
University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus enrolls 10,519 undergraduates. An estimated 56.2% of them arrive as transfers or part-time students, and 26.2% receive Pell Grants.
The composition is a campus where most students did not start as first-time freshmen, and a quarter use federal grant aid. In its 2024-25 Common Data Set, the university reported 14,931 degree-seeking first-year applicants and 11,151 admitted.
For transfer applicants, it reported 3,210 applicants, 2,147 admitted, and 1,178 enrolled. Pell-eligible applicants can use the cost calculator to estimate their own grant-adjusted price.
Of full-time bachelor's-seeking entrants, 72.7% return for a second year and 46.2% finish within six years. Both figures sit below the medians for comparable institutions (same type and size), where retention is 83.1% and the six-year rate is 65.0%.
Pell recipients in the same first-time full-time cohort complete at 56.2%, which is 10.0 percentage points above the overall six-year rate. The direction of the Pell gap is worth weighing alongside the program-level outcomes on the program pages.
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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