What is the UPenn acceptance rate?

UPenn's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 72,544 first-year applicants and 3,570 admitted, an acceptance rate of 4.9%. It was 5.4% in 2024-25 and 5.9% in 2023-24.

What is the UPenn early decision acceptance rate?

In 2025-26, 1,266 of 9,503 early decision applicants were admitted (13.3%), against 4.9% 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 UPenn students have?

In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 740 to 770 on Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and 770 to 800 on Math, and ACT submitters scored 34 to 35. The Common Data Set prints no composite SAT range for that year. 52.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.

How many students get off the UPenn waitlist?

In 2025-26, UPenn offered 3,252 applicants a place on the waitlist; 2,566 accepted one, and 60 were admitted from it.

Official acceptance rates

UPenn acceptance rate and admissions statistics

UPenn admitted 3,570 of 72,544 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 4.9%. 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 UPenn counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.

UPenn acceptance rate by year

Common Data Set section C1, first-year applicants
CDS year	Applied	Admitted	Acceptance rate	Enrolled	Yield
2025-26	72,544	3,570	4.9%	2,420	67.8%
2024-25	65,236	3,523	5.4%	2,395	68.0%
2023-24	59,465	3,489	5.9%	2,416	69.2%

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 UPenn

Common Data Set section C21
CDS year	ED applicants	ED admitted	ED admit rate	Overall rate
2025-26	9,503	1,266	13.3%	4.9%
2024-25	8,683	1,235	14.2%	5.4%
2023-24	8,109	1,204	14.8%	5.9%

UPenn waitlist

Common Data Set section C2
CDS year	Offered a place	Accepted a place	Admitted from it	Admitted, of those who accepted
2025-26	3,252	2,566	60	2.3%
2024-25	2,958	2,288	66	2.9%
2023-24	3,010	2,288	40	1.7%

UPenn 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
2025-26	Not published	740 to 770	770 to 800	34 to 35	52.0%
2024-25	Not published	740 to 770	770 to 800	34 to 36	50.0%
2023-24	Not published	730 to 770	770 to 800	34 to 35	51.0%

What UPenn 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 UPenn rated in the top two tiers.

2025-26: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Application essay, Recommendations, Character/personal qualities; Important: Class rank, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Volunteer work, Work experience
2024-25: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Application essay, Recommendations, Character/personal qualities; Important: Class rank, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Volunteer work, Work experience
2023-24: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Application essay, Recommendations, Character/personal qualities; Important: Class rank, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Volunteer work, Work experience

UPenn testing policy for students applying in 2026-27

Test required. Penn applicants are required to submit SAT or ACT scores. Self-reporting is allowed, with official scores due before enrollment.

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

How these numbers were read

In every year shown, Penn's 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.

UPenn acceptance rate questions

What is the UPenn acceptance rate?: UPenn's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 72,544 first-year applicants and 3,570 admitted, an acceptance rate of 4.9%. It was 5.4% in 2024-25 and 5.9% in 2023-24.
What is the UPenn early decision acceptance rate?: In 2025-26, 1,266 of 9,503 early decision applicants were admitted (13.3%), against 4.9% 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 UPenn students have?: In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 740 to 770 on Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and 770 to 800 on Math, and ACT submitters scored 34 to 35. The Common Data Set prints no composite SAT range for that year. 52.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
How many students get off the UPenn waitlist?: In 2025-26, UPenn offered 3,252 applicants a place on the waitlist; 2,566 accepted one, and 60 were admitted from it.
Does UPenn require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?: Test required. Penn applicants are required to submit SAT or ACT scores. Self-reporting is allowed, with official scores due before enrollment.

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