
Iowa State University's Regular Decision acceptance rate for the application year 2024 stands at 88.7%, with 20,475 out of 23,095 applicants being accepted. The acceptance rate has shown a steady decline from previous years, where it was 89.1% in 2023, 90.2% in 2022, and peaked at 91.1% in 2021. This downward trend indicates increasing competition among applicants, as seen by the increasing number of applicants each year, which rose from 18,246 in 2019 to over 23,000 in 2024.