What is the Dartmouth acceptance rate?

Dartmouth's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 28,230 first-year applicants and 1,699 admitted, an acceptance rate of 6.0%. It was 5.4% in 2024-25 and 6.2% in 2023-24.

What is the Dartmouth early decision acceptance rate?

In 2025-26, 768 of 3,552 early decision applicants were admitted (21.6%), against 6.0% 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 Dartmouth students have?

In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1440 to 1550, and ACT submitters scored 32 to 35. 69.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.

How many students get off the Dartmouth waitlist?

In 2025-26, Dartmouth offered 2,497 applicants a place on the waitlist; the number who accepted is not published, and the number admitted from it is not published.

Official acceptance rates

Dartmouth acceptance rate and admissions statistics

Dartmouth admitted 1,699 of 28,230 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 6.0%. 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 Dartmouth counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.

Dartmouth acceptance rate by year

Common Data Set section C1, first-year applicants
CDS year	Applied	Admitted	Acceptance rate	Enrolled	Yield
2025-26	28,230	1,699	6.0%	1,205	70.9%
2024-25	31,656	1,710	5.4%	1,182	69.1%
2023-24	28,841	1,797	6.2%	1,209	67.3%

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 Dartmouth

Common Data Set section C21
CDS year	ED applicants	ED admitted	ED admit rate	Overall rate
2025-26	3,552	768	21.6%	6.0%
2024-25	3,551	681	19.2%	5.4%
2023-24	3,009	600	19.9%	6.2%

Dartmouth waitlist

Common Data Set section C2
CDS year	Offered a place	Accepted a place	Admitted from it	Admitted, of those who accepted
2025-26	2,497	Not published	Not published	Not published
2024-25	2,589	2,189	29	1.3%
2023-24	2,352	1,606	0	0.0%

Dartmouth 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
2025-26	1440 to 1550	32 to 35	69.0%
2024-25	Not published	Not published	Not published
2023-24	Not published	Not published	Not published

What Dartmouth 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 Dartmouth rated in the top two tiers.

2025-26: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Character/personal qualities; Important: Talent/ability
2024-25: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Character/personal qualities; Important: Talent/ability
2023-24: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Recommendations, Standardized test scores, Application essay, Extracurricular activities, Character/personal qualities; Important: Talent/ability

Dartmouth testing policy for students applying in 2026-27

Test-required: applicants from U.S. high schools must submit the SAT or ACT (superscored; self-reporting allowed). Applicants from schools outside the U.S. may instead submit three AP exams, IB, A-Level or national exam results.

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

How these numbers were read

C9 is not printed in 2024-25 and is blank in 2023-24, so test fields for those years read Not published. The 2025-26 C2 prints only the number offered a place. The 2023-24 C1 total row prints 0 admitted, so admitted is the sum of the men and women rows.

Dartmouth acceptance rate questions

What is the Dartmouth acceptance rate?: Dartmouth's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 28,230 first-year applicants and 1,699 admitted, an acceptance rate of 6.0%. It was 5.4% in 2024-25 and 6.2% in 2023-24.
What is the Dartmouth early decision acceptance rate?: In 2025-26, 768 of 3,552 early decision applicants were admitted (21.6%), against 6.0% 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 Dartmouth students have?: In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1440 to 1550, and ACT submitters scored 32 to 35. 69.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
How many students get off the Dartmouth waitlist?: In 2025-26, Dartmouth offered 2,497 applicants a place on the waitlist; the number who accepted is not published, and the number admitted from it is not published.
Does Dartmouth require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?: Test-required: applicants from U.S. high schools must submit the SAT or ACT (superscored; self-reporting allowed). Applicants from schools outside the U.S. may instead submit three AP exams, IB, A-Level or national exam results.

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