What is the Colgate acceptance rate?

Colgate's Common Data Set for 2024-25 reports 20,682 first-year applicants and 2,871 admitted, an acceptance rate of 13.9%. It was 12.0% in 2023-24 and 12.4% in 2022-23.

What is the Colgate early decision acceptance rate?

In 2024-25, 477 of 2,447 early decision applicants were admitted (19.5%), against 13.9% of all applicants. Early decision applicants are a different pool who commit to enroll, so the two rates are not a like-for-like comparison.

What SAT scores do Colgate students have?

In 2024-25, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1450 to 1530, and ACT submitters scored 33 to 34. 23.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.

How many students get off the Colgate waitlist?

In 2024-25, Colgate offered 2,433 applicants a place on the waitlist; 1,338 accepted one, and 48 were admitted from it.

Official acceptance rates

Colgate acceptance rate and admissions statistics

Colgate admitted 2,871 of 20,682 first-year applicants in its 2024-25 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 13.9%. Every number below comes from the college’s own Common Data Set, each year linked to its document; a figure the college leaves blank says “Not published”, and the notes at the foot of the page say where a total is the sum of rows the college printed.

What did admitted applicants have? How to get into Colgate counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.

Colgate acceptance rate by year

Common Data Set section C1, first-year applicants
CDS year	Applied	Admitted	Acceptance rate	Enrolled	Yield
2024-25	20,682	2,871	13.9%	825	28.7%
2023-24	21,130	2,526	12.0%	807	31.9%
2022-23	21,109	2,624	12.4%	812	30.9%

Acceptance rate is admitted divided by applied; yield is enrolled divided by admitted. Both are computed by Aristo Scholars from the two counts printed beside them.

Early decision at Colgate

Common Data Set section C21
CDS year	ED applicants	ED admitted	ED admit rate	Overall rate
2024-25	2,447	477	19.5%	13.9%
2023-24	2,097	481	22.9%	12.0%
2022-23	1,933	487	25.2%	12.4%

Colgate waitlist

Common Data Set section C2
CDS year	Offered a place	Accepted a place	Admitted from it	Admitted, of those who accepted
2024-25	2,433	1,338	48	3.6%
2023-24	2,905	1,446	71	4.9%
2022-23	3,663	2,146	0	0.0%

Colgate SAT and ACT scores

Common Data Set section C9, enrolled first-year students who submitted scores
CDS year	SAT 25th to 75th	ACT 25th to 75th	Submitted an SAT
2024-25	1450 to 1530	33 to 34	23.0%
2023-24	1440 to 1510	32 to 34	22.0%
2022-23	1418 to 1510	32 to 34	31.0%

What Colgate says matters in admission

In section C7 each college rates its own admission factors as Very Important, Important, Considered or Not Considered. These are the factors Colgate rated in the top two tiers.

2024-25: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA; Important: Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities
2023-24: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA; Important: Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities
2022-23: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA; Important: Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Character/personal qualities

Colgate testing policy for students applying in 2026-27

Test optional: "Submission of SAT and ACT scores is optional for Colgate applicants"; non-submitters are at no disadvantage.

From Colgate’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.

How these numbers were read

Colgate has not yet posted a 2025-26 Common Data Set. The 2022-23 totals are the sums of the men and women rows; the 2023-24 applied figure is the residency total.

Colgate acceptance rate questions

What is the Colgate acceptance rate?: Colgate's Common Data Set for 2024-25 reports 20,682 first-year applicants and 2,871 admitted, an acceptance rate of 13.9%. It was 12.0% in 2023-24 and 12.4% in 2022-23.
What is the Colgate early decision acceptance rate?: In 2024-25, 477 of 2,447 early decision applicants were admitted (19.5%), against 13.9% of all applicants. Early decision applicants are a different pool who commit to enroll, so the two rates are not a like-for-like comparison.
What SAT scores do Colgate students have?: In 2024-25, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1450 to 1530, and ACT submitters scored 33 to 34. 23.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
How many students get off the Colgate waitlist?: In 2024-25, Colgate offered 2,433 applicants a place on the waitlist; 1,338 accepted one, and 48 were admitted from it.
Does Colgate require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?: Test optional: "Submission of SAT and ACT scores is optional for Colgate applicants"; non-submitters are at no disadvantage.

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Source: Colgate Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Colgate. All official acceptance rates