Test-optionalNo early plan
Illinois State University
IL · Public · Midwest · National university · 19,057 undergraduates (large)
Admission rates
Latest admit rates
Overall admit rate88.2%
Early roundNo early plan
Regular round†88.2%no early round, so same as overall
† This school has no early round, so the regular rate equals the overall admit rate.
Trends, Fall 2024–Fall 2024
Admission rates
Overall
Early plans
Fall 2027 applicants
No early plan (priority deadline, then rolling) · School admissions page ↗
Testing
Testing policy
Fall 2027
Test-optionalSchool testing page ↗ · checked Nov 2026
Fall 2028
Fall 2028 policy not yet announced.School testing page ↗ · checked Nov 2026
Superscoring
What this means:
How to send scores
Not stated on the school’s site
The saved pages do not describe a submission method.
checked Nov 9, 2026
Students submitting scores
Est. % submitting scores‡51.2%SAT 43.7% + ACT 7.5%
‡ Est. % submitting scores adds the share of enrolled first-years who submitted the SAT to the share who submitted the ACT.
Submitted SAT43.7%
1,872 students
Submitted ACT7.5%
323 students
Score ranges (middle 50%)
Enrolled first-years who submitted scores, Fall 2024. A quarter scored below the range and a quarter above.
SAT composite
1010–1210 median 1110
10001600
SAT Reading & Writing
500–620 median 560
500800
SAT Math
490–590 median 540
450800
ACT composite
21–27 median 24
2036
Trends, Fall 2024–Fall 2024
Share of enrolled students submitting scores
SAT + ACT (est.)SATACT
SAT composite, middle 50%
25th–75th percentile, enrolled students (labels show both values)
ACT composite, middle 50%
25th–75th percentile, enrolled students (labels show both values)
Year-by-year data, Fall 2024–Fall 2024
| CDS year | Admitted | Admit rate | ED rate | Est. % submitting | % SAT | % ACT | SAT mid-50 | ACT mid-50 | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | Common Data Set not found online | ||||||||||
| 2020-21 | Common Data Set not found online | ||||||||||
| 2021-22 | Common Data Set not found online | ||||||||||
| 2022-23 | Common Data Set not found online | ||||||||||
| 2023-24 | Common Data Set not found online | ||||||||||
| 2024-25 ↗ | 19,017 | 88.2% | Not reported | 51.2% | 43.7% | 7.5% | 1010-1210 | 21-27 | |||
| 2025-26 | Common Data Set not found online | ||||||||||
Waitlist admit rate
Share of students who stayed on the waitlist and were later admitted, by entering class.
Test policy in each Common Data Set
History only. The current policy is under Testing above.
- No CDS found CDS not available2025-26 CDS
- Fall 2026 Test-optional2024-25 CDS
- No CDS found CDS not available2023-24 CDS
- No CDS found CDS not available2022-23 CDS
- No CDS found CDS not available2021-22 CDS
- No CDS found CDS not available2020-21 CDS
- No CDS found CDS not available2019-20 CDS