Admissions & selectivity
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater?
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s reported acceptance rate is 85.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 85.7%
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.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater admits 85.7% of applicants, a rate that sits close to the median of 85.9% for comparable institutions (same type and size). The university is open to most students who apply, and the admission rate reflects that broad-access mission.
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Wisconsin-Whitewater students report?
The middle half of enrolled students who submitted ACT scores scored between 17 and 24. These are the twenty-fifth and seventy-fifth percentiles among recent score submitters, not a minimum for admission.
Applicants can compare their own results with the university's 17 to 24 range. The figures describe enrolled students who chose to submit scores, not a required threshold. The range offers one way to see where recent score submitters landed.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- 25th percentile
- 17
- 75th percentile
- 24
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 25.2%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 23.7%
- First-year retention
- 78.0%
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 Wisconsin-Whitewater enrolls 9,405 undergraduates, with 25.2% receiving Pell Grants and an estimated 23.7% entering as transfers or part-time students. The student body is shaped by two sizable entry points: a quarter of undergraduates use federal grant aid, and nearly another quarter arrive after starting coursework elsewhere.
That mix suggests a campus where the traditional first-time, full-time path is common but not the only route.
Of full-time students who start at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 78.0% return for a second year and 58.9% finish a bachelor's degree within six years. Both figures run above the peer medians of 73.7% and 49.1% for comparable institutions.
Pell Grant recipients in the same entering cohort complete at a rate of 63.9%, which is 5.0 percentage points above the overall six-year rate. The university graduates its Pell students at a higher clip than the cohort as a whole.
Enrolled students can expect persistence and completion rates that clear the peer benchmarks, and the Pell completion figure suggests the outcome holds for students who arrive with federal grant aid.
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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