UW-La Crosse acceptance rate and admissions profile

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.

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.

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 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.