Dakota Wesleyan University acceptance rate and admissions profile

Dakota Wesleyan University is a private college in South Dakota that admits most qualified applicants (around 73%), which puts it in the moderately selective range. A rate like this means it admits more applicants than it rejects; the bar is less about clearing a single cutoff and more about how your full profile compares to admitted students.

Use this page to see what Dakota Wesleyan University weighs, where it ranks among South Dakota schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1120, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

Dakota Wesleyan University signals that it values rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and standardized test scores above the rest of the file. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from Dakota Wesleyan University's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

Among the 10 South Dakota schools we track, Dakota Wesleyan University ranks #3 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like Mount Marty University (43%) and Augustana University (68%) sit nearby, which makes South Dakota a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list.

If Dakota Wesleyan University is on your list, schools with a similar admit profile are worth a look: Seton Hall University, Adrian College, and Allen University. Running the same profile against each one in the free calculator is the fastest way to see where you are a reach, a match, or a likely.

Acceptance rate and admitted test ranges reflect publicly reported data (U.S. Department of Education / NCES IPEDS / Common Data Sets). Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.