UW-Eau Claire acceptance rate and admissions profile

UW-Eau Claire, a public university in Wisconsin, reports a 82% acceptance rate and sits in the accessible band. In practice that means it admits most qualified applicants, so a strong application is judged against an applicant pool that is already self-selected.

Use this page to see what UW-Eau Claire weighs, where it ranks among Wisconsin schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1180, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

The factors that carry the most weight at UW-Eau Claire are rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and standardized test scores. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from UW-Eau Claire's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

Among the 23 Wisconsin schools we track, UW-Eau Claire ranks #12 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like University of Wisconsin (45%) and Mount Mary University (62%) sit nearby, which makes Wisconsin a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list. As a public university, residency matters: in-state applicants generally see meaningfully better odds than the headline rate suggests.

Applicants targeting UW-Eau Claire often weigh Arkansas State University, Kansas State University, and Montana State University, which sit at a similar level. 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.