RIT acceptance rate and admissions statistics
RIT admitted 22,439 of 31,565 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 71.1%. Every number below comes from the college’s own Common Data Set, each year linked to its document; a figure the college leaves blank says “Not published”, and the notes at the foot of the page say where a total is the sum of rows the college printed.
What did admitted applicants have? How to get into RIT counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
RIT acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 31,565 | 22,439 | 71.1% | 2,959 | 13.2% |
| 2024-25 | 27,892 | 18,682 | 67.0% | 3,040 | 16.3% |
| 2023-24 | 24,071 | 17,123 | 71.1% | 2,932 | 17.1% |
Acceptance rate is admitted divided by applied; yield is enrolled divided by admitted. Both are computed by Aristo Scholars from the two counts printed beside them.
Early decision at RIT
RIT waitlist
RIT SAT and ACT scores
What RIT says matters in admission
In section C7 each college rates its own admission factors as Very Important, Important, Considered or Not Considered. These are the factors RIT rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA
- Important: Class rank, Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations, Character/personal qualities
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA
- Important: Class rank, Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations, Character/personal qualities, Level of applicant's interest
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA
- Important: Class rank, Recommendations, Standardized test scores, Application essay, Character/personal qualities, Level of applicant's interest
RIT testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test optional for all undergraduate programs, including first-year applicants for fall 2027: submitting SAT or ACT scores is not required. RIT superscores.
From RIT’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
The 2024-25 C1 residency total is 27,892 applied, while the gender rows sum to 27,911; the residency total is shown.
RIT acceptance rate questions
- What is the RIT acceptance rate?
- RIT's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 31,565 first-year applicants and 22,439 admitted, an acceptance rate of 71.1%. It was 67.0% in 2024-25 and 71.1% in 2023-24.
- What is the RIT early decision acceptance rate?
- In 2025-26, 1,028 of 1,405 early decision applicants were admitted (73.2%), against 71.1% of all applicants. Early decision applicants are a different pool who commit to enroll, so the two rates are not a like-for-like comparison.
- What SAT scores do RIT students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1310 to 1440, and ACT submitters scored 30 to 34. 41.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- How many students get off the RIT waitlist?
- In 2025-26, RIT offered 2,155 applicants a place on the waitlist; 657 accepted one, and 164 were admitted from it.
- Does RIT require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test optional for all undergraduate programs, including first-year applicants for fall 2027: submitting SAT or ACT scores is not required. RIT superscores.
Applying to RIT?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what RIT says it weighs.
Source: RIT Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with RIT. All official acceptance rates