Admissions & selectivity
University of Idaho Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Idaho?
University of Idaho’s reported acceptance rate is 75.5%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 75.5%
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.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
University of Idaho admitted 75.5% of applicants to its reported entering class, meaning most applicants in that pool received an offer. The rate is below the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Idaho students report?
University of Idaho’s submitted test scores show the academic range represented in its enrolled class, rather than admission thresholds. For enrolled students who submitted SAT scores, the middle half—the span from the lower to upper quarter—fell between 990 and 1,230.
The corresponding middle half for ACT submitters ran from 20 to 26. These are ranges for students who enrolled and chose to submit scores, so they do not set minimums for admission.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Idaho. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 990
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1230
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
- 20
- 75th percentile
- 26
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Idaho?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 23.5%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 20.6%
- First-year retention
- 75.6%
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 Idaho enrolls a mix of Pell Grant recipients and students who began college elsewhere. Pell Grant recipients account for 23.5% of undergraduates, a financial-access measure, and an estimated 20.6% of the undergraduate population entered as transfers or part-time students.
With 7,747 undergraduates, the university’s composition includes both students receiving federal grant aid and those arriving with prior college coursework. Applicants who are Pell-eligible or planning to transfer should use the school’s cost calculator and program pages to map aid and prior coursework to their intended field.
Students who start full time at University of Idaho return for a second year at a rate above the comparable-institution benchmark. The first-year retention rate is 75.6%, compared with a peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 73.7%.
The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 57.3%, also above the peer median of 49.1%. Pell recipients in that cohort complete within six years at 54.6%, below the overall rate by 2.7 percentage points.
Enrolled students can expect retention and graduation figures that both sit above their comparable-institution medians, alongside a lower completion rate for Pell recipients.
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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