What is the Lafayette acceptance rate?

Lafayette's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 10,556 first-year applicants and 3,289 admitted, an acceptance rate of 31.2%. It was 31.4% in 2024-25 and 31.5% in 2023-24.

What is the Lafayette early decision acceptance rate?

In 2025-26, 356 of 937 early decision applicants were admitted (38.0%), against 31.2% 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 Lafayette students have?

In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1360 to 1490, and ACT submitters scored 30.5 to 33. 27.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.

How many students get off the Lafayette waitlist?

In 2025-26, Lafayette offered 2,660 applicants a place on the waitlist; 1,316 accepted one, and 171 were admitted from it.

Official acceptance rates

Lafayette acceptance rate and admissions statistics

Lafayette admitted 3,289 of 10,556 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 31.2%. 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 Lafayette counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.

Lafayette acceptance rate by year

Common Data Set section C1, first-year applicants
CDS year	Applied	Admitted	Acceptance rate	Enrolled	Yield
2025-26	10,556	3,289	31.2%	696	21.2%
2024-25	10,195	3,206	31.4%	698	21.8%
2023-24	9,874	3,107	31.5%	697	22.4%

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 Lafayette

Common Data Set section C21
CDS year	ED applicants	ED admitted	ED admit rate	Overall rate
2025-26	937	356	38.0%	31.2%
2024-25	870	369	42.4%	31.4%
2023-24	833	363	43.6%	31.5%

Lafayette waitlist

Common Data Set section C2
CDS year	Offered a place	Accepted a place	Admitted from it	Admitted, of those who accepted
2025-26	2,660	1,316	171	13.0%
2024-25	2,364	1,120	81	7.2%
2023-24	2,137	870	63	7.2%

Lafayette 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	1360 to 1490	30.5 to 33	27.0%
2024-25	1370 to 1490	31 to 33	23.0%
2023-24	1350 to 1470	30 to 33	31.0%

What Lafayette 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 Lafayette rated in the top two tiers.

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

Lafayette testing policy for students applying in 2026-27

Test-optional: submitting standardized test results stays optional for students entering in fall 2027 and fall 2028; self-reported or official SAT/ACT accepted and superscored, with official scores required on enrollment.

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

How these numbers were read

The 2025-26 ACT composite 25th percentile is printed as 30.5 and shown as printed. The 2023-24 document prints no year header; its year follows its file name.

Lafayette acceptance rate questions

What is the Lafayette acceptance rate?: Lafayette's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 10,556 first-year applicants and 3,289 admitted, an acceptance rate of 31.2%. It was 31.4% in 2024-25 and 31.5% in 2023-24.
What is the Lafayette early decision acceptance rate?: In 2025-26, 356 of 937 early decision applicants were admitted (38.0%), against 31.2% 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 Lafayette students have?: In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1360 to 1490, and ACT submitters scored 30.5 to 33. 27.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
How many students get off the Lafayette waitlist?: In 2025-26, Lafayette offered 2,660 applicants a place on the waitlist; 1,316 accepted one, and 171 were admitted from it.
Does Lafayette require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?: Test-optional: submitting standardized test results stays optional for students entering in fall 2027 and fall 2028; self-reported or official SAT/ACT accepted and superscored, with official scores required on enrollment.

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