Admissions & selectivity
University of Delaware Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Delaware?
University of Delaware’s reported acceptance rate is 70.6%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 70.6%
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
At 70.6%, University of Delaware admitted a majority of applicants to the reported entering class. The figure summarizes admissions outcomes across that applicant group rather than predicting an individual decision.
Its rate is below the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Delaware students report?
For applicants using test scores as a reference, University of Delaware's submitted-score ranges show the academic profile of part of its enrolled class. Applicants should use the 1,190 to 1,370 SAT range as a reference point: it covers the middle half of enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, rather than an admissions minimum.
The ACT range runs from 28 to 32 for the middle half of enrolled students who submitted those scores. Like the SAT figures, it describes the submitted-score group and does not set a threshold for admission.
The SAT and ACT ranges offer separate reference points for recent enrolled score submitters, so an applicant can compare results with the test they submitted.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Delaware. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1190
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1370
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
- 28
- 75th percentile
- 32
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Delaware?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 16.1%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 12.9%
- First-year retention
- 92.0%
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 Delaware brings together a large undergraduate body with both Pell Grant recipients and students arriving after prior college study. Its undergraduate enrollment is 19,071 undergraduates, and 16.1% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants, a financial-access measure rather than a description of family background.
An estimated 12.9% of the undergraduate body entered as transfers or part-time students, so the composition includes students following more than one route into the university. Pell-eligible and transfer applicants should compare aid offers, review credit-transfer evaluations, and confirm how prior coursework applies to degree requirements before making an enrollment decision.
Students who start full time at University of Delaware persist and complete at rates that outpace comparable institutions. The first-year retention rate is 92.0%, against a peer median of 83.1% for institutions of the same type and size.
The six-year graduation rate for that cohort is 80.5%, compared to a peer median of 65.0%. Pell recipients in the same entering class complete at 75.3%, which is 5.2 percentage points below the overall rate.
The gap is a fact about the outcomes the university records for these two groups, not an explanation of why it exists. Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion outcomes that sit above the peer medians.
The figures describe the first-time full-time cohort; students who transfer in or attend part-time may have different paths.
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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