What is the George Washington acceptance rate?

George Washington's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 27,034 first-year applicants and 12,741 admitted, an acceptance rate of 47.1%. It was 47.1% in 2024-25 and 43.5% in 2023-24.

What is the George Washington early decision acceptance rate?

In 2024-25, 755 of 1,139 early decision applicants were admitted (66.3%), against 47.1% 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 George Washington students have?

In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1310 to 1450, and ACT submitters scored 31 to 34. 36.5% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.

How many students get off the George Washington waitlist?

In 2025-26, George Washington offered 6,084 applicants a place on the waitlist; 2,858 accepted one, and 616 were admitted from it.

Official acceptance rates

George Washington acceptance rate and admissions statistics

George Washington admitted 12,741 of 27,034 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 47.1%. 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 George Washington counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.

George Washington acceptance rate by year

Common Data Set section C1, first-year applicants
CDS year	Applied	Admitted	Acceptance rate	Enrolled	Yield
2025-26	27,034	12,741	47.1%	2,405	18.9%
2024-25	27,006	12,718	47.1%	2,459	19.3%
2023-24	27,094	11,798	43.5%	2,539	21.5%

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 George Washington

Common Data Set section C21
CDS year	ED applicants	ED admitted	ED admit rate	Overall rate
2025-26	Not published	Not published	Not published	47.1%
2024-25	1,139	755	66.3%	47.1%
2023-24	1,196	765	64.0%	43.5%

George Washington waitlist

Common Data Set section C2
CDS year	Offered a place	Accepted a place	Admitted from it	Admitted, of those who accepted
2025-26	6,084	2,858	616	21.6%
2024-25	6,517	2,844	1,188	41.8%
2023-24	5,689	2,320	14	0.6%

George Washington 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	1310 to 1450	31 to 34	36.5%
2024-25	1360 to 1470	30 to 33	27.0%
2023-24	1360 to 1480	31 to 34	30.0%

What George Washington 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 George Washington rated in the top two tiers.

2025-26: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA; Important: Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Volunteer work
2024-25: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA; Important: Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Volunteer work
2023-24: Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA; Important: Application essay, Recommendations, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability, Volunteer work

George Washington testing policy for students applying in 2026-27

Test-optional: SAT/ACT scores are an optional credential. Scores are required only for the B.A./B.S.-M.D. program, homeschooled applicants, and applicants from schools that give narrative evaluations only.

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

How these numbers were read

The 2025-26 C21 lists two early decision rounds but prints no counts. The 2023-24 figures are from the updated document.

George Washington acceptance rate questions

What is the George Washington acceptance rate?: George Washington's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 27,034 first-year applicants and 12,741 admitted, an acceptance rate of 47.1%. It was 47.1% in 2024-25 and 43.5% in 2023-24.
What is the George Washington early decision acceptance rate?: In 2024-25, 755 of 1,139 early decision applicants were admitted (66.3%), against 47.1% 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 George Washington students have?: In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1310 to 1450, and ACT submitters scored 31 to 34. 36.5% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
How many students get off the George Washington waitlist?: In 2025-26, George Washington offered 6,084 applicants a place on the waitlist; 2,858 accepted one, and 616 were admitted from it.
Does George Washington require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?: Test-optional: SAT/ACT scores are an optional credential. Scores are required only for the B.A./B.S.-M.D. program, homeschooled applicants, and applicants from schools that give narrative evaluations only.

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