Drexel acceptance rate and admissions statistics
Drexel admitted 26,583 of 38,030 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 69.9%. 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 Drexel counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
Drexel acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 38,030 | 26,583 | 69.9% | 1,948 | 7.3% |
| 2024-25 | 37,314 | 29,642 | 79.4% | 2,399 | 8.1% |
| 2023-24 | 40,204 | 31,171 | 77.5% | 2,881 | 9.2% |
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 Drexel
Drexel waitlist
Waitlist counts: Not published. Drexel’s Common Data Set prints no waitlist numbers (section C2) for any year shown.
Drexel SAT and ACT scores
What Drexel 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 Drexel rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores
- Important: Application essay, Recommendations, Character/personal qualities
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores
- Important: Application essay, Recommendations, Character/personal qualities
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Class rank, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores
- Important: Recommendations, Application essay, Character/personal qualities
Drexel testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
No Harm Test-Optional: applicants are not required to submit SAT/ACT, and scores never hurt. BS/BA+MD Early Assurance applicants must submit official SAT or ACT scores.
From Drexel’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
Drexel reports a waitlist policy but prints no C2 counts in any year shown.
Drexel acceptance rate questions
- What is the Drexel acceptance rate?
- Drexel's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 38,030 first-year applicants and 26,583 admitted, an acceptance rate of 69.9%. It was 79.4% in 2024-25 and 77.5% in 2023-24.
- What is the Drexel early decision acceptance rate?
- In 2025-26, 234 of 299 early decision applicants were admitted (78.3%), against 69.9% 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 Drexel students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1260 to 1430, and ACT submitters scored 28 to 33. 35.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- Does Drexel require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- No Harm Test-Optional: applicants are not required to submit SAT/ACT, and scores never hurt. BS/BA+MD Early Assurance applicants must submit official SAT or ACT scores.
Applying to Drexel?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what Drexel says it weighs.
Source: Drexel Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Drexel. All official acceptance rates