UChicago acceptance rate and admissions statistics
UChicago admitted 2,039 of 45,533 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 4.5%. 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 UChicago counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
UChicago acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 45,533 | 2,039 | 4.5% | 1,786 | 87.6% |
| 2024-25 | 43,612 | 1,955 | 4.5% | 1,726 | 88.3% |
| 2023-24 | 38,631 | 1,849 | 4.8% | 1,626 | 87.9% |
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 UChicago
Early decision counts: Not published. UChicago’s Common Data Set prints no early decision applicant or admit counts (section C21) for any year shown.
UChicago waitlist
Waitlist counts: Not published. UChicago’s Common Data Set prints no waitlist numbers (section C2) for any year shown.
UChicago SAT and ACT scores
What UChicago 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 UChicago rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities
- Important: None recorded
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities
- Important: None recorded
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities
- Important: None recorded
UChicago testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test-optional with a 'No Harm' policy: submitting the SAT or ACT is optional, and a submitted score is used only if it helps the applicant. This applies to all applicants, domestic, international and transfer.
From UChicago’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
UChicago prints no C2 waitlist counts and no C21 early decision counts in any year shown. C1 leaves the total row blank, so applied, admitted and enrolled are the sums of the sex and gender rows. Some inner pages of the 2025-26 document carry the 2024-25 header; its data are for Fall 2025.
UChicago acceptance rate questions
- What is the UChicago acceptance rate?
- UChicago's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 45,533 first-year applicants and 2,039 admitted, an acceptance rate of 4.5%. It was 4.5% in 2024-25 and 4.8% in 2023-24.
- What SAT scores do UChicago students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1500 to 1560, and ACT submitters scored 34 to 35. 57.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- Does UChicago require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test-optional with a 'No Harm' policy: submitting the SAT or ACT is optional, and a submitted score is used only if it helps the applicant. This applies to all applicants, domestic, international and transfer.
Applying to UChicago?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what UChicago says it weighs.
Source: UChicago Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with UChicago. All official acceptance rates