Penn State Regular Decision Acceptance Rate

For the application year 2024, Pennsylvania State University reported a Regular Decision acceptance rate of 60.5%, with 53,579 applicants accepted out of a total of 88,478 applications. This marks a decline from the previous year, where the acceptance rate was 66.7% with 21,552 out of 32,315 applicants accepted. Historically, acceptance rates have fluctuated significantly; for example, the acceptance rate was as high as 75.9% in 2019 and as low as 54.2% in 2020. This trend indicates that competition for admission has increased in recent years, particularly when compared to earlier rates.