Test-optionalEA
University of Cincinnati
OH · Public · Midwest · National university · 30,957 undergraduates (large)
Admission rates
Latest admit rates
Overall admit rate88%
Early roundNot reported by roundEarly-round counts not in the CDS
Regular round†Not reported by roundEarly-round counts not in the CDS
† Not reported by round: this school publishes an overall admit rate but not applicant and admit counts for each round, so early and regular rates can’t be shown.
Trends, Fall 2024–Fall 2025
Admission rates
Overall
Early plans
Fall 2027 applicants
Early Action (Nov. 1), non-binding · School admissions page ↗What this means:
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‡33.5%SAT 9% + ACT 24.5%
‡ Est. % submitting scores adds the share of enrolled first-years who submitted the SAT to the share who submitted the ACT.
Submitted SAT9%
583 students
Submitted ACT24.5%
1,594 students
Score ranges (middle 50%)
Enrolled first-years who submitted scores, Fall 2025. A quarter scored below the range and a quarter above.
SAT composite
1160–1340 median 1250
10001600
SAT Reading & Writing
580–680 median 630
500800
SAT Math
580–680 median 630
500800
ACT composite
24–30 median 27
2036
Trends, Fall 2024–Fall 2025
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 2025
| 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 ↗ | 29,242 | 85.3% | Not reported | 41.1% | 10.6% | 30.5% | 1160-1350 | 24-29 | |||
| 2025-26 ↗ | 29,715 | 88% | Not reported | 33.5% | 9% | 24.5% | 1160-1340 | 24-30 | |||
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.
- Fall 2027 Test-optional2025-26 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
Notes
- Applied, admitted and enrolled are the residency-table totals; the women's applied figure in the gender table (180,508) looks like a typo.