Virginia Commonwealth acceptance rate and admissions statistics
Virginia Commonwealth admitted 19,572 of 21,201 first-year applicants in its 2024-25 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 92.3%. 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 Virginia Commonwealth counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
Virginia Commonwealth acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21,201 | 19,572 | 92.3% | 4,275 | 21.8% |
| 2023-24 | 19,256 | 17,886 | 92.9% | 4,600 | 25.7% |
| 2022-23 | 18,402 | 16,696 | 90.7% | 4,223 | 25.3% |
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 Virginia Commonwealth
Early decision counts: Not published. Virginia Commonwealth’s Common Data Set prints no early decision applicant or admit counts (section C21) for any year shown.
Virginia Commonwealth waitlist
Virginia Commonwealth SAT and ACT scores
What Virginia Commonwealth 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 Virginia Commonwealth rated in the top two tiers.
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA
- Important: Application essay
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA
- Important: Application essay
- 2022-23
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA
- Important: Application essay
Virginia Commonwealth testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test optional: applicants, including scholarship applicants, need not submit scores unless they apply to the Honors College guaranteed admission programs, which still require them. Applicants who have scores may submit them.
From Virginia Commonwealth’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
VCU has not yet posted a 2025-26 Common Data Set. The 2024-25 totals are the sums of the sex rows; the residency breakdown in the same document gives 24,804 applied, 20,769 admitted and 4,449 enrolled. VCU has no early decision plan.
Virginia Commonwealth acceptance rate questions
- What is the Virginia Commonwealth acceptance rate?
- Virginia Commonwealth's Common Data Set for 2024-25 reports 21,201 first-year applicants and 19,572 admitted, an acceptance rate of 92.3%. It was 92.9% in 2023-24 and 90.7% in 2022-23.
- What SAT scores do Virginia Commonwealth students have?
- In 2024-25, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1010 to 1260, and ACT submitters scored 22 to 30. 33.7% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- How many students get off the Virginia Commonwealth waitlist?
- In 2024-25, Virginia Commonwealth offered 28 applicants a place on the waitlist; 28 accepted one, and 17 were admitted from it.
- Does Virginia Commonwealth require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test optional: applicants, including scholarship applicants, need not submit scores unless they apply to the Honors College guaranteed admission programs, which still require them. Applicants who have scores may submit them.
Applying to Virginia Commonwealth?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what Virginia Commonwealth says it weighs.
Source: Virginia Commonwealth Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth. All official acceptance rates