UW-La Crosse acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

With an acceptance rate near 76%, UW-La Crosse is an accessible public university in Wisconsin. Because it admits most qualified applicants, admission turns on the strength of your whole profile rather than any one number.

Use this page to see what UW-La Crosse 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.

What are my chances at UW-La Crosse with a 3.1 GPA and a 1120 SAT?

About 93% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1120 SAT, the middle of UW-La Crosse's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1180 SAT comes out near 98%. Courses, activities, essays and the application round move the number; the free calculator includes them.

Estimates, not guarantees. Get yours with your real courses and activities. Assistants and developers can fetch this table from the free API: /api/v1/colleges/uw-la-crosse.

Here is how to get into UW-La Crosse, built from what its admitted class actually looks like and what the school says it weighs.

For the fall 2023 entering class, UW-La Crosse received 7,312 applications and admitted 5,356, an acceptance rate of 73.2%. 2,301 enrolled. Roughly 43% of admitted students enrolled, a typical yield for a school in this range. UW-La Crosse enrolls about 9,277 undergraduates in total, 57% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 20 to 1.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, IPEDS 2023 admissions and enrollment.

On the ACT the middle 50% runs from 22 to 27. UW-La Crosse is test-optional: scores are considered if you submit them but not required. Send a score at or above the middle of the admitted range; otherwise apply without one and let your transcript lead.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10.

In its review, UW-La Crosse leans most on 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-La Crosse's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

The full sticker price at UW-La Crosse (tuition, fees, housing, food, books) is about $19,593 a year. Tuition and fees are $10,070 for WI residents and $19,517 for out-of-state students, a $9,447 gap that makes residency the single biggest lever on cost. What families actually pay is different: the average net price after grants and scholarships is $16,210 a year, and it ranges from $8,224 for families earning under $30,000 to $18,991 for families earning over $110,000. 14% of undergraduates receive a federal Pell Grant.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Net price is what students receiving aid paid after grants, by family income.

Median earnings for UW-La Crosse students ten years after entry are $60,378 ($49,626 at the six-year mark). 71% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 87% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $22,500; 42% of undergraduates take federal loans.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Earnings cover students who received federal aid.

Among the 23 Wisconsin schools we track, UW-La Crosse ranks #8 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.

Build around UW-La Crosse with peers at a comparable selectivity, such as Indiana University Indianapolis, Tennessee Tech University, and The Citadel. 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, application counts, admitted test ranges, cost, and outcomes reflect publicly reported federal data (U.S. Department of Education: IPEDS 2023 and the College Scorecard) and each school's Common Data Set; figures are rounded and lag the current cycle by one to two years, so confirm deadlines and policies on the school's own site. The typical-admit GPA and SAT are CollegeCalcAI's modeled estimates. Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.