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# Wilmington College Acceptance Rate & Admissions

Updated October 1, 2026

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## What is the acceptance rate at Wilmington College?

Wilmington College’s reported acceptance rate is 92.4%.

**Acceptance rate · Fall 2024**
92.4%

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 is broadly available at Wilmington College, where 92.4% of applicants to the reported entering class were admitted. This rate sits above the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size), so the school’s admissions outcome was higher than the midpoint for its comparison group.

## What SAT and ACT scores do Wilmington College students report?

At Wilmington College, submitted SAT and ACT results offer context from enrolled students who provided scores, not thresholds for admission. They describe the spread among score submitters and do not represent every enrolled student.

The reported ranges mark the lower and upper points of the central submitted-score distribution. They are useful for placing a score alongside those of recent enrolled submitters, but they are not minimum scores required for admission.

Applicants should compare their results with Wilmington College’s SAT range of 850 through 1,220 and ACT range of 16 through 23 as context for enrolled students who submitted scores.

The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Wilmington College. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.

SAT: approximate enrolled-student range

**Approximate lower endpoint**
850

**Approximate upper endpoint**
1220

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.

ACT: enrolled-student score range

**25th percentile**
16

**75th percentile**
23

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.

Figures cover fall 2024.

## Who enrolls at Wilmington College?

**Pell Grant recipients**
38.9%

**Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group**
33.3%

**First-year retention**
72.0%

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.

Wilmington College serves a mix of aid recipients and people arriving after starting college elsewhere. Pell Grant recipients make up 38.9% of undergraduates, a financial-access measure, and an estimated 33.2% of the undergraduate population entered as transfers or part-time students.

The college has 1,006 undergraduates, so neither route is peripheral to the campus composition. These figures describe who attends rather than admission priorities or an individual applicant's prospects.

Pell Grant recipients at Wilmington College complete at a higher rate than the overall entering cohort. The six-year completion rate for Pell students is 57.5%, which is 10.2 percentage points above the rate for all first-time full-time students.

The [six-year graduation rate](/analysis/what-the-graduation-rate-doesnt-count/) for the full first-time full-time cohort is 47.3%, below the peer median of 54.9% for comparable institutions. First-year retention is 72.0%, also below the peer median of 74.2%.

An enrolled student should expect a campus where financial need does not predict a lower chance of finishing, though overall completion lags the peer group.

## Data & methodology

Sources and reporting periods: [methodology](/methodology/).

Analysis and methodology by [Daniel Rogers](/about/#founder), 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](/about/).