What is the Rutgers acceptance rate?

Rutgers's Common Data Set for 2023-24 reports 43,347 first-year applicants and 28,326 admitted, an acceptance rate of 65.3%. It was 66.3% in 2022-23 and 68.2% in 2021-22.

What SAT scores do Rutgers students have?

In 2023-24, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 630 to 720 on Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and 640 to 760 on Math, and ACT submitters scored 28 to 33. The Common Data Set prints no composite SAT range for that year. 50.9% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.

Official acceptance rates

Rutgers acceptance rate and admissions statistics

Rutgers admitted 28,326 of 43,347 first-year applicants in its 2023-24 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 65.3%. 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 Rutgers counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.

Rutgers acceptance rate by year

Common Data Set section C1, first-year applicants
CDS year	Applied	Admitted	Acceptance rate	Enrolled	Yield
2023-24	43,347	28,326	65.3%	7,681	27.1%
2022-23	41,654	27,612	66.3%	7,780	28.2%
2021-22	43,161	29,419	68.2%	7,105	24.2%

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 Rutgers

Early decision counts: Not published. Rutgers’s Common Data Set prints no early decision applicant or admit counts (section C21) for any year shown.

Rutgers waitlist

Waitlist counts: Not published. Rutgers’s Common Data Set prints no waitlist numbers (section C2) for any year shown.

Rutgers SAT and ACT scores

Common Data Set section C9, enrolled first-year students who submitted scores
CDS year	Composite SAT 25th to 75th	EBRW 25th to 75th	Math 25th to 75th	ACT 25th to 75th	Submitted an SAT
2023-24	Not published	630 to 720	640 to 760	28 to 33	50.9%
2022-23	Not published	630 to 720	640 to 760	28 to 33	50.0%
2021-22	Not published	610 to 710	630 to 760	27 to 33	45.0%

What Rutgers 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 Rutgers rated in the top two tiers.

2023-24: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA; Important: Application essay, Extracurricular activities, Character/personal qualities
2022-23: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA; Important: Application essay, Extracurricular activities, Character/personal qualities
2021-22: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores; Important: Extracurricular activities

Rutgers testing policy for students applying in 2026-27

Test-optional. The Rutgers admissions FAQ says Rutgers keeps its test-optional and test-blind policies through 2027.

From Rutgers’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.

How these numbers were read

Figures are for Rutgers-New Brunswick, and 2023-24 is the newest Common Data Set Rutgers has posted. In every year shown, the C9 prints EBRW and Math ranges but no composite SAT range, so the SAT table gives the two section ranges and the composite reads Not published. 2021-22 enrolled is the sum of the men and women rows. Rutgers has no early decision plan and prints no waitlist counts.

Rutgers acceptance rate questions

What is the Rutgers acceptance rate?: Rutgers's Common Data Set for 2023-24 reports 43,347 first-year applicants and 28,326 admitted, an acceptance rate of 65.3%. It was 66.3% in 2022-23 and 68.2% in 2021-22.
What SAT scores do Rutgers students have?: In 2023-24, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 630 to 720 on Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and 640 to 760 on Math, and ACT submitters scored 28 to 33. The Common Data Set prints no composite SAT range for that year. 50.9% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
Does Rutgers require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?: Test-optional. The Rutgers admissions FAQ says Rutgers keeps its test-optional and test-blind policies through 2027.

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Source: Rutgers Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Rutgers. All official acceptance rates