Harvey Mudd acceptance rate and admissions statistics
Harvey Mudd admitted 643 of 5,217 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 12.3%. 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 Harvey Mudd counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
Harvey Mudd acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 5,217 | 643 | 12.3% | 236 | 36.7% |
| 2024-25 | 5,094 | 645 | 12.7% | 231 | 35.8% |
| 2023-24 | 4,792 | 626 | 13.1% | 224 | 35.8% |
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 Harvey Mudd
Harvey Mudd waitlist
Harvey Mudd SAT and ACT scores
What Harvey Mudd 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 Harvey Mudd rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Recommendations
- Important: Application essay, Extracurricular activities, Character/personal qualities
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Recommendations
- Important: Application essay, Extracurricular activities, Character/personal qualities
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Recommendations
- Important: Application essay, Extracurricular activities, Character/personal qualities
Harvey Mudd testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test-optional for students applying for Fall 2027. HMC returns to requiring standardized testing for all students in the Fall 2028 application cycle.
From Harvey Mudd’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
The 2023-24 totals are the residency table totals. The 2025-26 C2 prints 0 admitted from the waitlist.
Harvey Mudd acceptance rate questions
- What is the Harvey Mudd acceptance rate?
- Harvey Mudd's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 5,217 first-year applicants and 643 admitted, an acceptance rate of 12.3%. It was 12.7% in 2024-25 and 13.1% in 2023-24.
- What is the Harvey Mudd early decision acceptance rate?
- In 2025-26, 109 of 594 early decision applicants were admitted (18.4%), against 12.3% 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 Harvey Mudd students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1500 to 1560, and ACT submitters scored 35 to 36. 55.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- How many students get off the Harvey Mudd waitlist?
- In 2025-26, Harvey Mudd offered 685 applicants a place on the waitlist; 439 accepted one, and 0 were admitted from it.
- Does Harvey Mudd require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test-optional for students applying for Fall 2027. HMC returns to requiring standardized testing for all students in the Fall 2028 application cycle.
Applying to Harvey Mudd?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what Harvey Mudd says it weighs.
Source: Harvey Mudd Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with Harvey Mudd. All official acceptance rates